Record ID: SWYOR-C4C24E
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Barnsley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core of Mesolithic date, 9000 BC - 4000 BC. It is a cylindrical core producing narrow blades, formed on grey flint. It appears to have a single striking platform. It is 28.1mm long, 17.7mm wide and 11.5mm thick. 5.5g.
Created on: Sunday 14th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-313FB9
Object type: CORE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible core rejuvenation flake of very cherty white flint. Unknown date, Mesolithic to Bronze Age (10,000 - 1000 BC). The dorsal face has numerous small removal scars and the right edge appears to be the original striking platform which has been removed. It is 55.8mm long, 14.1mm wide and 10.4mm thick. 8.4g.
Created on: Sunday 7th April 2024
Last updated: Saturday 13th April 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-2C8285
Object type: CORE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A opaque light grey cherty flint probable tertiary core rejuvenation flake, with several inclusions, of uncertain date Mesolithic to Bronze Age, 10,000 - 1000 BC. It is broadly rectangular, with previous removal scars on the dorsal face, and the original striking platform forming one face. The product was flakes. There is a fossil inclusion in one end. It is 49.2mm long, 29.4mm wide and 17.1mm thick. 25.6g.
Created on: Sunday 7th April 2024
Last updated: Saturday 13th April 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-2C6928
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A opaque light grey flint tertiary core, with several inclusions, of probable Mesolithic date, 10,000 - 4000 BC. It is irregular with a three striking platforms producing narrow blades. It is 50.4mm long, 34.5mm wide, 23.7mm thick and 40.8g.
Created on: Sunday 7th April 2024
Last updated: Saturday 13th April 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-2BE9E3
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A opaque light grey flint secondary core, with cortex on two faces and one end, of probable Mesolithic date, 10,000 - 4000 BC. It is irregular or semi-conical with a two opposed striking platforms producing narrow blades. It is 52.4mm long, 31mm wide and 30mm thick. 60.6g.
Created on: Sunday 7th April 2024
Last updated: Saturday 13th April 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-CA40DD
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core of probable Mesolithic date (10,000 - 4000 BC). It is formed of light grey flint. It is conical and is worked from both ends, producing narrow blades. The core is worked out. It is 23.1mm long, 13.1mm wide and 12.2mm thick. 3.2g.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C297FC
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flint, possibly part of a core of possible Mesolithic date, 10000 - 4000 BC. It is a tertiary fragment of grey flint. There is no surviving striking platform. It is crescent shaped and the curved side has multiple blade scars. It is triangular in cross-section and the ventral face has wide curved convex ripples from the distal end of the original object. It is 22.5mm long, 10.8mm wide and 7.6mm thick. 1.4g.
Created on: Friday 15th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 12th January 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-A3569B
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core of probable Neolithic date 4000 BC - 2200 BC. It is a patinated tertiary chunk which is piriform in plan and D shaped in cross-section. It is an irregular core with two striking platforms at right angles to each other. One is at the pointed distal end. The other is the flat ventral face from which the removals forming the rounded proximal end have been worked. The core produced flakes. There is later damage on the ventral face where accidental removals have revealed an iron rich orange colour under the patinated white surface. The core is 58.3mm long, 47.4mm wide…
Created on: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-FA49B3
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core of probable mesolithic date, 10,000 BC - 4000 BC. It is sub-cuboid with cortex surviving at one end. There are four striking platforms, two at opposite ends to each other, and two at right angles. The product is narrow blades. It is 28mm long, 24.9mm wide and 21.5mm thick. It weighs 15.5g .c
Created on: Monday 30th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-6A6900
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core of Mesolithic date 9000 BC - 4000 BC. It is a tabular core, with two opposing striking platforms producing narrow blades. It is formed on grey flint with an inclusion on the unworked face. It is 36.2mm long, 24.8mm wide and 13.6mm thick. 11.6g.
Created on: Friday 29th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 9th October 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-4303BB
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible chert core of possible Mesolithic date, 9000 BC - 4000 BC. It may also be a chert chunk. It is secondary, and white coloured, with cortex on one face. There are narrow blade removals from two faces at right angles to each other, leaving the core shaped like a quarter cone. It is 24.2mm long, 23.3mm wide and 13.2mm thick. 7.3g.
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 9th October 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-0D6328
Object type: CORE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Rotherham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A burnt and crazed flint probable core of unknown date. It is an irregular shape with two opposed striking platforms producing small flakes. One end of the core has cortex surviving and the rest is white. It is 23mm tall, 34.8mm wide and 17.8mm thick. 15.4g
Created on: Thursday 31st August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th September 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-4596A7
Object type: CORE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core of unknown date, Mesolithic to Bronze Age, 10,000 BC - 1000 BC. It is a flint nodule with cortex surviving on one convex face. The other faces are covered with previous removal scars, mostly irregular, but one face has two neat blade removal scars. The core is sub-cuboid. It has one striking platform producing large blades with hinged terminations.  It is patinated to white. It is 44.3mm long, 32.4mm wide and 28.5mm thick. 59.4g.
Created on: Thursday 22nd June 2023
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-5BF21D
Object type: CORE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable flint core of Mesolithic to Neolithic date, 10,000 BC - 2200 BC. It is a worked out discoidal core of light grey flint. All the faces are covered with previous narrow blade and small flake removals from two opposing directions. It is 21.3mm long, 17.5mm wide and 7.3mm thick. 2.5g.
Created on: Thursday 30th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 7th April 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-C7D7F4
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Oldham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A chert core of probable late Mesolithic date, 8000 - 4000 BC. It is formed on a tertiary chunk of grey chert. It is sub-cylindrical and bipolar with two opposed striking platforms.The product appears to have been narrow blades. It is 38.4mm long, 15mm wide and 10mm thick. 7.2g.
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2023
Last updated: Friday 7th April 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-C7AE93
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Oldham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A chert core of probable late Mesolithic date, 8000 - 4000 BC. It is formed on a tertiary chunk of black chert. It is sub-conical and there are at least three striking platforms, all at right angles to each other. They product appears to have been small flakes or blades. It is 24.8mm long, 24.7mm wide and 14.9mm thick. 12.2g.
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2023
Last updated: Friday 7th April 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-CBBC47
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probably Neolithic flint core dating from about 4000 BC - 2200 BC. It is a tabular to irregular core, formed on a secondary chunk of semi-translucent grey-brown flint. It is broadly rectangular in plan and cross-section and one side and end has the original cortex intact. It has one main striking platform, the removals producing small flakes. Measurements: Length 4.13mm, width 3.18mm, thickness 17.7mm and weight 28.97g.  
Created on: Monday 27th February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-458D01
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint flake, possibly a core rejuvenation flake or a scraper, but heat altertered and crazed, with some damage, making identifiaction difficult, It is probably Neolithic to Bronze Age in date, 4000 BC - 1000 BC. It is a tertiary flake which has apparently been struck from one end, with clear removal scars on the dorsal face, a previous striking platform forming the left edge and a potlid or pressure fracture on the ventral face which truncates further removals. The flint is white and is crazed, leaving jagged fractures in areas of damage. The previous removal scars and prev…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd January 2023
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-F785DA
Object type: CORE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two chert cores of uncertain date, probably Mesolithic to Neolithic, 10000 BC - 2200 BC. Both are formed on secondary chunks of grey chert with some original surface surviving. The larger one is cylindrical, except two of the faces are unworked. It has an oval striking platform producing bladelets and small flakes. It is 26mm long, 27.1mm wide and 16.9mm thick. 16.2g. The smaller chunk is probably a core and is lightly worked and irregular, with multiple striking platforms. The product is small flakes and blades and there is some platform preperation. It is 26.5mm long…
Created on: Sunday 18th December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 10th January 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-881AD1
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core, probably dating from the Mesolithic, 10000 BC - 4000 BC. It is formed on a secondary chunk of mottled light grey flint. It has a rectangular striking platform and is triangular in profile, with a large inclusion in one end face. The single striking platform has signs of platform dressing, and produced narrow blades, mainly parallel to each other. It is 19.4mm long, 32mm wide and 13.6mm thick. 10.4g.
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-87FDC9
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core, probably dating from the late Mesolithic, 8000 BC - 4000 BC. It is formed on a tertiary chunk of dark grey to black cherty flint. It is conical with one striking platform, producing parallel narrow blades. It is 20.6mm long, 17mm wide and 15.7mm thick. 5.6g.
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-871B5B
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core dating from the late Mesolithic, 8000 BC - 4000 BC. It is formed on a tertiary chunk of opaque and patinated light grey flint. It is conical, with one platform producing parallel narrow blades. It is 24.7mm long, 19.7mm wide and 16mm thick. 8.5g.
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-C42109
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A chert core of Mesolithic date, 10,000 - 4000 BC. It is a broadly cuboid chunk of dark grey to black chert, with rounded corners and edges, from which three blades have been struck. The blades are struck from a single platform, and the removals produced narrow blades. The core is 23.1mm long, 27.6mm wide and 12.7mm thick. 11.3g.
Created on: Thursday 22nd September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 5th October 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-DF72B2
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint possible core of possible Mesolithic date, 10,000 BC - 4000 BC. It is a large chunk of yellow cherty flint which is crazed and fractured from exposure to heat or file, making the original form difficult to recognise. Most of the surfaces appear to be natural fracturing, but two may be blade removal scars from a cylindrical core, probably from two opposing striking platforms. The chunk is 34.3mm long, 45.1mm wide and 31mm thick. 46.4g. It could also be a chunk of heat damaged debitage or natural stone.
Created on: Saturday 18th June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 14th July 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-63F489
Object type: CORE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A chunk of flint of unknown date, Mesolithic to Bronze Age, about 10,000 BC - 600 BC. It is possibly a rough core. It is a secondary chunk of irregularly shaped mottled grey flint, now patinated, with patches of a bright yellow surface layer. There are several removal scars in multiple directions, and no obvious striking platform. The products appear to have been flakes. It is 49.7mm long, 34.6mm wide and 20.9mm thick. 33.2g.
Created on: Sunday 12th June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 14th July 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-639357
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint possible core rejuvenation flake of possible Mesolithic date, 10,000 BC - 4000 BC. It is a tertiary chunk of dark grey flint. It is irregularly shaped, but with two main flat faces. The faces appear to be striking platforms for the removal of narrow blades, with removal scars visible on one, maybe two side faces. It is 42.7mm long, 41.6mm wide and 13.5mm thick. 25.6g. 
Created on: Sunday 12th June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 14th July 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-636059
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core of possible Mesolithic date, 10,000 BC - 4000 BC). It is a tertiary chunk of crazed and heat altered flint, now light grey in colour. It is a conical core, with at least two striking platforms at right angles to each other, producing narrow blades. It is 18.4mm long, 15.4mm wide and 10.8mm thick. 3.04g.
Created on: Sunday 12th June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 14th July 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-6F2CFD
Object type: CORE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Kirklees
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flint nodule, possibly used as the raw material for flint working, so a form of core, but with only limited removals taken from it. It is of unknown date, probably Mesolithic to Iron Age, 10,000 BC - 1 BC. It is a rounded nodule of flint, with cortex at one end, and exposed faces of flint at the other end. The flint is mottled black, yellow and grey. There are no clearly identifiable striking platforms, suggesting this is a mainly unworked nodule rather than a formal flint working core. Though the nodule offers no intrinsic dating evidence, other finds from the area have…
Created on: Sunday 20th March 2022
Last updated: Friday 25th March 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-021554
Object type: CORE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint probable core, of uncertain date from the Mesolithic period to the Iron Age, 10,000 BC - 1 BC. It is a secondary irregular chunk of semi-translucent mottled brown flint, with cortex on one face. The cortex face is a platform from which flakes have been removed on all sides. There is also a second platform at right angles to this. The products appear to have been a mixture of small blades and squat flakes. There is no visible platform dressing. It is 25.2mm long, 35.7mm wide and 8.2mm thick. 12.7g.
Created on: Tuesday 25th January 2022
Last updated: Friday 1st April 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-3D2BC5
Object type: CORE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core which has been reused as a scraper, probably of Mesolithic to Neolithic date, 10,000 BC - 2200 BC. It is formed on light grey flint which is partially patinated, with cortex along one edge and corner. The core is sub-square in plan, and oval in cross-section, of tabular form. There are two striking platforms, at right angles to each other, producing blades or small flakes. The core is worked out. There are two areas of retouch, at opposite corners, which interrupt the patination, suggesting it was done later than the initial working. The retouch is short, abrupt and scale…
Created on: Tuesday 16th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 24th November 2021
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Record ID: SWYOR-EB2669
Object type: CORE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core or core fragment of Mesolithic to Neolithic date, 9000 BC - 2200 BC. It is an irregular secondary chunk, with at least three striking platforms, producing mainly narrow blades struck from opposite directions and at right angles to that. The flint is worn, light grey and partially patinated, with cortex surviving on one small face. The core is 25.3mm long, 17.8mm wide and 9.5mm thick. 5.6g.
Created on: Sunday 31st October 2021
Last updated: Friday 3rd December 2021
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Record ID: SWYOR-44DCA9
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A mesolithic flint core dating from 9000 - 4000 BC. The core is formed on patinated flint with some iron staining. It is irregular, with two striking platforms at right angles to each other, and was used to produce narrow blades. It is 55.2mm long, 40.2mm wide and 26.5mm thick. 56.5g.
Created on: Sunday 18th July 2021
Last updated: Friday 23rd July 2021
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Record ID: SWYOR-092C8D
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core of late Mesolithic date, 8000 BC - 4000 BC. It is patinated and speckled grey, conical in form with one face that is cortex. There are three striking platforms; one at each end, and the cortex face at right angles to the others. The core produced mainly narrow blades. It is 40.0mm long, 23.9mm wide and 15.8mm thick. 20.4g.
Created on: Sunday 27th September 2020
Last updated: Saturday 17th October 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-087D93
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core of probable Mesolithic date, 9000 BC - 4000 BC. It is patinated and light grey, and broadly tabular in form; rectangular in plan, tapering in thickness at one end. There are two striking platforms; both sides of the core have removals taken from the main face, and at the thicker end, there are also removals at right angles, taken from one side. The product seems to have been mainly small blades. The core is 56.8mm long, 34.8mm wide and 19.5mm thick. 41.7g.
Created on: Sunday 27th September 2020
Last updated: Saturday 17th October 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-108955
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core of probable Mesolithic date, 9000 BC - 4000 BC. It is formed on a small pebble with cortex on about a third of the curved surface. There are two faces which have been used as striking platforms, at right angles to each other. The irregular core produced small blades. The core is 28.4mm long, 25.3mm wide and 20.1mm thick. 14.5g.
Created on: Sunday 29th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-8F3CD4
Object type: CORE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core of Mesolithic to Bronze Age date (9000 BC - 1000 BC). It is formed on a secondary chunk of speckled grey flint and is discoidal with a noticable pot lid fracture on one face. There are two striking platforms at opposite ends of the core, and multiple striking angles. The product appears to be a mixture of flakes and blades. It is 40.6mm long, 35.3mm wide and 17.1mm thick. 27.7g.
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-8C025D
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core of probable Mesolithic date (9000 BC - 4000 BC). It is formed on a tertiary flake of speckled grey flint and is conical. There are two striking platforms at right angles to each other, and the product is narrow blades. It is 27.8mm long, 32.7mm wide and 28mm thick. 26.2g.
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-8B8999
Object type: CORE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core of Mesolithic to Neolithic date (9000 BC - 2200 BC). It is formed on a tertiary flake of mottled grey and pale tan flint and is irregular in shape. There are multiple striking platforms at various angles, producing small blades. It is 29.4mm long, 19.3mm wide and 15.4mm thick. 8.48g.
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Sunday 2nd August 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-23FF3B
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Bradford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core of early Mesolithic date (9000 BC - 8000 BC). It is a cylindrical bipolar core formed on mottled dark grey flint, which produced narrow blades struck from both ends. It is 45.4mm long, 13.6mm wide and 8.6mm thick. 6.56g.
Created on: Thursday 12th December 2019
Last updated: Sunday 29th December 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-22DC1F
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Bradford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core of Early Mesolithic date (9000 BC - 8000 BC). It is a cylindrical bipolar core with narrow blades removed from both ends and also across the main striking platform from a third direction. It is formed on grey speckled flint. It is 36.9mm long, 16.3mm wide and 14.8mm thick. 13g.
Created on: Thursday 12th December 2019
Last updated: Sunday 2nd August 2020
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