DOR-651E5E: Late Neolithic to early Bronze Age fabricator (probably)

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FABRICATOR

Unique ID: DOR-651E5E

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

A large fabricator or axehead roughout. It is elongate in shape with a rounded distal end and rectilinear proximal end. The cross section is plano convex. The flint is covered in a thin, smooth layer of off-white cortification. Patches of thick nodular cortex remain along the right side and distal end of the dorsal face with a thinner orangey sub-layer of cortification in between patches and covering the whole of the ventral face. Low angle flaking to the upper face is crude with many scars terminating in hinge fractures. The ventral face is flat.
Date: Late Neolithic to early Bronze Age BC 3300 - BC 1600.
Dimensions: 119.8 mm x 46.1 mm x 24.1 mm
Weight: 185.04 g

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 3300 BC
Date to: Circa 1600 BC

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 119.8 mm
Width: 46.1 mm
Thickness: 24.1 mm
Weight: 185.04 g

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: SCMS 017515

Materials and construction

Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: North Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Turnworth (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: ST8008
Four figure Latitude: 50.87115053
Four figure longitude: -2.28559878
1:25K map: ST8008
1:10K map: ST80NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Fieldwalking
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

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Recording Institution: DOR
Created: 5 years ago
Updated: 2 years ago

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