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Record ID: CORN-C3E40C
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A secondary flint core probably dating from the late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age, c. 2700- 801 BC.
The core is discoidal in shape with multiple striking angles and platforms. Multiple broad flake removal scars are visible across both faces. The flint is a mottled mid to light grey except for the small area of cortex (length: 18.13mm, width: 11.00mm) which is light brown.
Measurements: Length: 44.91mm, Width: 36.75mm, Thickness: 18.93mm, Weight: 36.00g.
Created on: Tuesday 4th October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 12th October 2022
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Record ID: CORN-2BB377
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two single-platform flint microcores, left with the scars of flake removals to produce microliths, dating from the Mesolithic period. One is 28.5 mm in length and 25.5 mm in width. The second is squatter than the first, 18 mm in length and 35 mm in width and retains a large patch of coarse cortex indicating that it was derived from a local beach pebble. The cores are coated with a creamy-white surface patina from exposure to hear and sunlight but would have originally been a darker grey in colour.
Butler (2005) illustrates a group of Mesolithic, single-platform bladelet cores fr…
Created on: Thursday 19th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-7E1B6B
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An opposing-platform flint microcore dating from the Mesolithic period, trapezoidal in plan, lenticular in profile and in section, 56 mm long, 34 mm wide, 21.5 mm thick and 39.45 g in weight. Apart from one flake scar at the proximal end the dorsal face is completely covered by the original cortex. The remnants of striking platforms are visible at both ends, from which numerous long, narrow, shallow blade scars originate, extending across the ventral face, resulting in an impellent which is thin at both ends and wider at the middle. The colour of the flint is a mottled light to dark …
Created on: Thursday 27th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 24th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-094C06
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic flint micro-core. The core is 48 mm long, 41 mm in width, 34.5 mm in thickness and 86.35 g in weight. A spherical flint beach pebble of fine-grained black flint, perhaps from Beer Head in Devon, with a thin sandy-brown cortex has been shaped in several distinct patches by the removal of multiple very small, shallow flakes from various directions. The resulting core has four flattened faces with the unaltered rounded surfaces at opposite ends. At one end, and on one side surrounding the largest of the flaked areas, the cortex is pitted with many small points of percussion …
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 11th February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-0400CB
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint single-platform core, trapezoidal in profile and in plan, 37 mm long, 25.5 mm wide and 14.5 mm in thickness, weighing 18.6 g. At least five shallow flakes have been carefully removed from one face, the opposite face is untouched and retains a large patch pf the cortex of the original local beach pebble. The surface of the flint is medium grey in colour, mottled with small patches of paler and darker flint.
Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 138, fig.5.125, no.F8 from the early Neolithic enclosure at Broome Heath, Norfolk.
Created on: Wednesday 6th September 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2017
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Record ID: CORN-03F8B0
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One flint and one Greensand chert single-platform micro-core. The flint core is triangular in profile and sub-square in plan, and is 47 mm in length, 25 mm in width, 18 mm in thickness and 23 g in weight. At least six narrow, longitudinal blades have been removed from this single-platform core. The surface patina is white mottled with very small dark specks and some patches of iron staining. The patina, together with the careful workmanship suggest a date in the Mesolithic or early Neolithic periods. The chert core is 52 mm in length, 30 mm in width, 18 mm in thickness and 38 g in wei…
Created on: Wednesday 6th September 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2017
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Record ID: CORN-C08ACC
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Five prehistoric flint core fragments. These vary in shape and size and although they all bear the scars of deliberate knapping all appear to be the waste from initial roughing-out prior to the commencement of more deliberate processing. The irregular nature of the fragments does not allow them to be attributed to a particular prehistoric period, but the size of the flake scars suggest that they date from the later Mesolithic to the Earlier Neolithic. All but one of the fragments retain patches of cortex which indicate that the flint was derived from local beach pebbles. The surface o…
Created on: Tuesday 11th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 24th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-C07B16
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two flint microcores, ovate in plan and triangular in profile. The smaller of the two cores has a single prepared striking platform from the edge of which several microflakes or blades have been removed. The larger core also has a pre-prepared platform from which microflakes or blades have been removed; additional flakes have then been removed from the adjacent edges of the core without the deliberate preparation of a second striking platform. Both cores are a mottled light to dark grey colour and both retain small patches of cortex which indicate that they are derived from local beac…
Created on: Tuesday 11th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 24th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-C06195
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two opposing platform flint cores, rhomboidal in plan and trapezoidal in profile. The cores each have prepared platforms at both ends and the negative scars of the removal of up to half a dozen blades and small flakes can be seen originating from the edges of the opposing platforms. The surface of one of the flints is a mottled light to dark grey and the other is uniformly light grey. Both cores retain patches of the original cortex which indicate that they are derived from local beach pebbles.
Bond (2004) illustrates similar cores with opposing platforms on page 120, fig.5.104, no…
Created on: Tuesday 11th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 24th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-C054E8
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two single platform flint cores, ovate in plan and triangular in profile. Both cores have prepared platforms at one end and bear the negative scars of the removal of up to half a dozen blades and flakes, which originate from the edge of the platform. In both cases the edges of the platform have been trimmed or abraded to remove overhangs in preparation for the next series of removals but have then been discarded. The surface of both flints is a mottled grey-brown colour and both cores retain patches of the original cortex which indicate that they are derived from local beach pebbles.
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Created on: Tuesday 11th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 24th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-988E37
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint single-platform micro-core, rhomboidal in plan and profile, and plano-convex in section. A large patch of cortex remains on the dorsal face. The proximal end is flat and is the remnant of the striking platform. The ventral face retains the scars of three long linear flakes having been removed from the core, together with several shorter, narrower flakes. The fragment shows no signs of having been retouched or otherwise utilised and was apparently discarded as waste at the completion of the knapping process. The flint is fine-textured, and a light grey-brown colour, with one la…
Created on: Monday 27th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 30th March 2017
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Record ID: CORN-98659E
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint single-platform micro-core, oval in plan, plano-convex in profile and in section. The cortex has been removed from the proximal end by the removal of three large flakes to produce a triangular point. Subsequently six shallow flakes to make bladelets have been removed, probably by pressure flaking at the proximal margin of the largest of the three original flake scars. The distal half, or butt, of the pebble retains its cortex and could have been held comfortably in the hand when in use. The point of the artefact is damaged through use as a chopping or crushing tool. The surfac…
Created on: Monday 27th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 30th March 2017
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Record ID: CORN-9561CE
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A chert single-platform micro-core, oval in plan, plano-convex in profile and in section. The pebble was initially broken in half by a single blow, the point of percussion of which is visible at the left margin of the resulting striking platform. The bulbar scar can be seen originating from this point although the remainder of the surface of the striking platform is very irregular and featureless. Subsequently around eight thin flakes were removed from the edge of the platform, the scars of which can clearly be seen around about three-fifths of the circumference of the artefact. The c…
Created on: Monday 27th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 30th March 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-FB5593
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very small, depleted, single-platform micro-core, sub-circular in plan, trapezoidal in profile and triangular in section. A very small patch of cream-coloured cortex remains at its distal end. The scars of the removal of many shallow, narrow, parallel flakes or bladelets, several of which are the full length of the core, are visible originating from points along the entire circumference of the flat striking platform. Several of the later flakes extend to only half the length of the core and terminate at steep hinge fractures, suggesting that the flint-knapper wished to make the most…
Created on: Tuesday 25th October 2016
Last updated: Friday 13th January 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-FB4577
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint pebble single-platform micro-core, ovoid in plan and triangular in profile and section. A patch of cortex remains at the proximal end, adjacent to the margin of the trapezoid-shaped striking platform, for about a quarter of its circumference. Shallow flakes or bladelets of varying width have been removed from around the remaining three-quarters of the circumference of the striking platform, resulting in a conical shape to the artefact.
The surface of the flint is mottled pale and dark grey with a large creamy-white inclusion. It appears to derive from a local beach pebble.
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Created on: Tuesday 25th October 2016
Last updated: Friday 13th January 2017
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Record ID: CORN-694A22
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint single-platform bladelet micro core, circular in plan and triangular in profile. Flakes have been removed two thirds of the way around the circumference from the platform edge, while the remaining third is covered in a layer of cortex. The flint is a mottled light grey to cream colour and may have been derived from a local beach pebble which has since been exposed to heat and cold so that the colour of the flint has become lighter. The core has also been in contact with iron which has left orange staining on most of the edges. The length to breadth ratio is about 1:1, which is a…
Created on: Thursday 10th October 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 29th October 2013
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Record ID: PUBLIC-CD9AF7
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A single platform bladelet core on a pebble of grey flint with opaque cream inclusions. The core has been worked on a thick flake to produce blades from a single abraded edge platform. some flakes have terminated short in hinge fractures. The ventral to lateral edge of the core has had slight re-use as a scraper. Butler(2005) illustrates bladelet cores on page 85, fig 30, 2-5.
Created on: Monday 4th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 26th February 2014
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This findspot is known as 'Lesingey', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: PUBLIC-3A0FF2
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of 104 flint and chert cores and tested pebbles weighing 3.2kg and spanning 5-240g from a 2 hectare field amongst a total of 850 worked flint fragments including waste and utilised pieces and tools. The flints have individual GPS records to a few metres accuracy which form a cluster extending beyond but centred in the field close to a brook at the edge of its flat alluvial plain and slightly above. The flints form a broad funnel to a crossing point and continue less frequently on the other side. There is no modern obvious preferential ford but fallen branches make natural brid…
Created on: Monday 28th May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 26th February 2014
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This findspot is known as 'Lesingey', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: PUBLIC-7F4CD0
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A multiple platform core which is grey and brown in colour.
This core has been used for flake and blade production with pieces produced ranging from 4-9mm in width.
Butler (2005) illustrates an example of this on p120, fig 47, 2
Created on: Tuesday 31st January 2012
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-7F3527
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A single platform core, dark grey in colour, which cortex back.
This core has been used for bladelet production producing pieces between 5-7mm in width.
Mercer (1981) illustrates a similar example on p120, fig 51, L19
Created on: Tuesday 31st January 2012
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2012
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