Record ID: PUBLIC-8E3233
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This double ended scraper has been made on a flake from dark brown flint with a rough nodular cortex. The ventral face has some rough cortex and no retouch. The dorsal face has had a vertical flake taken from its left margin and its cortex undisturbed except at the ends. The distal end has long semi abrupt retouch to create a blunt edge. The retouch at the proximal end is invasive, to create another blunted edge. Bond 2004 illustrates a similar piece on Page 151 Fig 5.135 No 125. which he puts in the Early Bronze Age.
Created on: Monday 27th June 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-A268C0
Object type: CORE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This a multi platformed core with irregular flake removals giving a sharp and denticulated edge to the platform.. It is made from pebble flint and still has a secondary amount of cortex remaining. It is a fresh piece with some flakes still adhering. Butler (2005) illustrates a similar example on page 180, fig.74, No.5 which is dated to the Bronze Age.
Created on: Tuesday 28th June 2011
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-96C805
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Knife. Trapezoidal in plan. The bulb and platform have been removed from the ventral face and the is retouch at the proximal end. On the dorsal face the proximal end has been invasively retouched. The central sections of the lateral edges have been semi abruptly retouched. Cortex remains at the distal end on the left margin running from the edge to the medial ridge. The distal end has been deliberately snapped and there are use wear marks on the snapped end. Made from nodular flint. Butler (2005) illustrates a similar example on page 171, Fig 72, No 8 which dates to the Bronze Age.
Created on: Sunday 10th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-9EBF74
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Translucent dark grey flint making a barbed and tanged flint arrowhead, triangular in plan and lozenge shaped in profile and section. The arrowhead has been invasively retouched throughout on both the dorsal and ventral face (bifacially) with one short barb (the other having been broken or snapped off), that does not extend to the length of the central tang, but is instead at an oblique angle to the tang. The tang appears to display evidence of semi abrupt retouch. Nice piece of work, Where the right barb should be is a clean break, with the edges still appearing sharp, probabley p…
Created on: Sunday 10th July 2011
Last updated: Sunday 5th February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-AB9B35
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The ventral face has retouch at the distal end. The dorsal face has abrupt retouch on the left side and long, semi-abrupt, scaled retouch on the right margin with a slight notch below the medial point. The piece has been snapped at its proximal end. The flint is dark brown in colour with tertiary cortex but was probably derived from a local beach pebble. Bond 2004 illustrates a side scraper with notch on page 151 Fig.5.135. which he places in the Early Bronze Age.
Created on: Monday 11th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-B31706
Object type: CORE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flake core worked two thirds way around a single platform on a mid grey cream flecked chert pebble of about 60 mm diameter. Some wide flakes have been detached but progress has been stopped by line of similar step fractures which go nearly all around the worked platform edge. The inability to prevent this by better preparation may indicate a later style than practised in the Neolithic. Butler(2005) illustrates a single platform core hampered by step fractures on page 180, fig.74,2.
Created on: Monday 11th July 2011
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-D5FE61
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint pebble scraper, roughly plano-convex in plan and meniscus shaped in profile. The distal end has been retouched. There are three indentations on the dorsal side from possible use as an anvil. The ventral side has gloss in the medial section. The flint is a mottled grey with cream cortex covering over half of the surface area. Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 151, Fig. 5.135, No. F. 111 which is illustrated to the Bronze Age period.
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-D62992
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint pebble scraper, roughly oblong in plan and plano-convex in profile. The distal end has been retouched and there is gloss on the left margin. The flint is a mid grey and garnet in colour with a dark beige cortex covering 1-49% of the surface area. Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 151, Fig. 5.135, F. 123 which is dated to the Bronze Age period.
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-DB4DE0
Object type: END SCRAPER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An end scraper on a soft hammer struck flake off the cortex of a mid grey flint pebble. The distal facet has been slightly flaked to make an end scraper with use indicated by gloss on the dorsal surface beginning at the left distal corner.Butler(2005) illustrates later Bronze age pieces on page 186 of which the slightly retouched flakes 6 and 7 are the closest examples.
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2011
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-DBC034
Object type: CORE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A single platform flake core on a mottled grey brown flint with cream flecks and a large quartzy inclusion. The gaps between the flake ridges where they meet the platform edge have been deeply abraded giving a scalloped platform plan. This may have isolated the individual platforms for a set of crested removals which was however not attempted.A similar scalloped platform core is illustrated by Butler(2005) on page 180, fig.74,2.
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2011
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-067EE1
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint pebble blade, oblong with one end pointed in plan and convex-concave in profile. The left margin has been retouched up to the medial ridge. The left distal edge has a hinge fracture. The proximal end has been snapped. The right margin is backed. The ventral side has deep pitting. The flint appears to have been heated. It is a dark grey and the cortex a dark beige in colour and covers 1-49% of the surface area.
Created on: Friday 15th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-697632
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint pebble scraper, roughly oval in plan and plano-convex in profile. The dorsal side has a medial ridge with cortex covering the left hand side. The right margin has been retouched. The distal and proximal ends are broken. It is a grey beige with cream flecks in colour. Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 151, Fig. 5.135, No. F.123 which is dated to the Bronze Age period.
Created on: Wednesday 20th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6F92B7
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A soft hammered short flake from a cortical platform of a brown flint pebble. The dorsal surface carries 2 sinuous converging flake scars and the distal end is terminated by a hinge fracture from the opposite direction. The left margin is semi-abruptly edged on its dorsal side and this continues from the medial to the distal on the ventral side, ending in a small notch. The right margin has a short untidy length of semi-invasive retouch. The indistinct preform and basic retouch suggest Later Prehistoric work. Butler(2005) illustrates a semi-abruptly retouched short flake on page 186, …
Created on: Wednesday 20th July 2011
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-700712
Object type: POINT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A triangular section flake of grey-brown flint with pointed ends and indistinct or converging ripples. There is incipient patination which on this site suggests older Mesolithic material but is not conclusive as individual pieces may vary. This shape of flint is found on old flint land-surfaces as a natural 'starch fracture'. Butler(2005),colour plate 7 illustrates one, but this example has slight crush damage at the proximal end as well as distal and nearby margin wear from use as a piercer or cutting tool. Experimentally it has been found that spindle shaped flints like this can for…
Created on: Wednesday 20th July 2011
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-710228
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A side scraper on a large, thick grey and cream primary flake from a pebble, mellowed by incipient patination. The flake has begun to patinate without any visible signs of use. It may have been struck in Later Mesolithic or Early Neolithic times, guessing from the surface condition of other local flint finds. The retouch through the patina is haphazard and looks like damage, but is all invasive or semi-invasive on the left dorsal margin and concentrated again on that margin on the ventral side.Here there are patches of similar diffuse gloss running from these scars so it appears that…
Created on: Wednesday 20th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-E9FC04
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Scraper constructed on a broken flake. The bulb is still present on the ventral face. The right lateral edge is convexed. The left lateral edge has been broken but this occurred before the flint had been used as a scraper. The dorsal face has been semi abruptly retouched on the convexed left lateral edge. The straight distal end shows that the knapping occurred after the flake had been broken. The break on the right lateral edge runs from the proximal to distal end. Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 151, Fig 5.135, F136 which dates to the Early Bronze Age.
Created on: Tuesday 26th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4FE3B2
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint hammerstone, round in plan and profile. Amber beige, beige, cream and grey in colour and almost totally covered by cortex. Andrefsky (1998) illustrates a similar example on page 12, Fig. 2.2 (a), which is dated to the Bronze Age period.
Created on: Sunday 31st July 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-5006C6
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint pebble hammerstone, roughly oblong in plan. Proximal end shows possible evidence of battering. It is cream grey in colour and almost totally covered in cortex. Andrefsky (1998) illustrates a similar example on page 12, Fig. 2.2(a), which is dated to the Bronze Age period.
Created on: Sunday 31st July 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BF4577
Object type: CORE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large mid grey flint pebble, broken in half to reveal a large coarse orangey inclusion. The margin of the boken facet has been radially worked from the cortical edge to leave thin small step fracture terminated flake scars. Internal cracks and the inclusion must have discouraged further efforts.Butler(2005) illustrates later Bronze Age cores including p.180, fig.74, 3 which has some of the flakes removed from a cortical platform.
Created on: Wednesday 17th August 2011
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-CD7A40
Object type: CORE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small pebble of mottled grey and cream flint. It has been prepared as a single platform core with two bold removals. The core has been discarded without platform abrasion so that it was not intended to remove further flakes. Butler(2005) illustrates a single platform core on p.156, fig.65,5.
Created on: Thursday 18th August 2011
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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