Record ID: DEV-6DEA2A
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unmodiefied beach cobble of metabasic igneous cornish "greenstone" utilised as a hammerstone, probably of prehistoric date, c. 8,000 BC - AD 43. The cobble is broady sub-trapezoidal in plan, oval in cross-section and piriform in profile, with the cobble being truncated by extensive, fairly localised battering damage on one end, now worn. Dimensions: length 85.4mm; width 67.5mm; thickness 51.8mm; weight: >300g. A similar hammerstone recorded on this database, CORN-2E4F62, references an unmodified "greenstone" hammerstone excavated within a Middle Bronze Age round house at Scar…
Created on: Wednesday 30th August 2017
Last updated: Friday 27th October 2017
Spatial data recorded.