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Record ID: BERK-BABE56
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small Mesolithic bladelet or microlith, dating from c. 8000 - 4000 BC. The microlith does not show any retouching.
Created on: Wednesday 16th February 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 16th February 2011
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Record ID: OXON-AB9254
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A collection of c. 200 lithic implements of mostly Mesolithic date (c. 10000-4000 BC). Collection was found in the back garden of a house in Newbury during gardening activities and consists of blade and bladelet flakes and debitage, microliths and some retouched pieces. Further details follow.
1x straight backed piece (rare - recorded separately)
1x curved backed piece
1x worn microdenticulate
3x small oblique points
1x plunging flake
2x miscellaneous retouched pieces
Created on: Tuesday 13th November 2018
Last updated: Monday 12th August 2019
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Record ID: OXON-AC822D
Object type: MICROLITH
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A straight backed piece of final upper palaeolithic or early mesolithic date, c. 40,000-6,000 BC. This object is part of a larger assemblage of blade and bladelet flakes and debitage microliths and some retouched pieces (see OXON-AB9254) found in the back garden of a house in Newbury during gardening activities. The straight-backed point is made on a secondary flake of a semi-translucent light brown flint. The point has concaved basal retouch, some very fine retouch on the right lateral edge and covering retouch along the straight back. The piece is in very good condition with no appa…
Created on: Tuesday 13th November 2018
Last updated: Monday 12th August 2019
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Record ID: BERK-AF76BD
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A later prehistoric bladelet core, dating from c. 7000 - 2400 BC (Mesolithic / Neolithic). The core has been made on a mottled light grey flint with a deep seam of cortex covering approximately 40% of the whole. There are several small blade removals and other removal scars as well as more modern damage. This core forms part of an assemblage of flint artefacts of later prehistoric date.
Although bladelets are generally assumed to be of Mesolthic date, this core is not definingly of that date and may be later.
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2017
Last updated: Friday 15th January 2021
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Record ID: BERK-AFE8F2
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small flint bladelet of later prehistoric date, probably dating from c. 7000 - 3000 BC (Mesolithic/Neolithic). The flake is made from a light grey flint which has small areas of iron staning on the dorsal surface. The flake is incomplete and is missing the proximal end with the platform and bulb. Lines of percussion are visible on the ventral surface. There is some crude, hasty retouch on the left dosal edge. This flake forms part of an assemblage of flint artefacts of later prehistoric date.
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2017
Last updated: Thursday 24th June 2021
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Record ID: BERK-B0221F
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A collection of eight later prehistoric blades and bladelet flakes, probably dating from c. 7000 - 2400 BC (Mesolithic to Neolithic). The blades have all been made on a mottled grey flint; seven are tertiary flakes while on is secondary with a very small area of retouch on the distal tip. None of the blades are retouched. These objects form part of an assemblage of flint artefacts of later prehistoric date.
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2017
Last updated: Thursday 24th June 2021
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Record ID: BERK-CDE464
Object type: CRESTED BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two complete flint 'crested blades' of Mesolithic date (10,000-4,000 BC). The smaller blade has a trace of cresting at its distal end. Both blades are heavily patinated white on their surfaces while internally the flint is a greyish-blue in colour, typical of flints from this area.
Large blade: 60.7mm L x 18.3mm W x 7.7mm T. 8.2 grams.
Smaller blade: 41.5mm L x 14.2mm W x 6.4mm T. 3.3 grams.
Created on: Monday 18th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 19th May 2020
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Record ID: BERK-CEB825
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A collection of three flint debitage pieces, or flintworking flakes of probable Mesolithic date. The debitage pieces include two unworked bladelets (combined weight of 3.8 grams) and one flake (6.8 grams), which retains its bulb. All three pieces are made on the characteristic mottled blue-grey flint of the area, which has a milky outer coating. Two of the pieces, the larger bladelet and the flake, retain areas of cortex, both being secondary flakes. The smaller bladelet is made on a tertiary flake.
Associated with BERK-CDE464 and BERK-CDE464.
Created on: Monday 18th January 2016
Last updated: Monday 18th January 2016
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Record ID: BERK-D1E2C2
Object type: TRANCHET AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete knapped flint tranchet adze or pick dating to the Mesolithic period (8300-4000 BC), similar to the so-called 'Thames Pick'. The pick has been made from a flint nodule and is broadly sub-rectangular in plan with both the butt end and the bladed cutting edge being slightly rounded; the pick tapers slowly from the butt end towards the blade. In section the pick is a pointed ovoid, with both butt and blade being thin and sharp and pointed in profile. The dorsal side of the pick has a high, off-centre longitudinal ridge, bevelled to each side due to flakes having been removed wi…
Created on: Monday 18th January 2016
Last updated: Friday 7th September 2018
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