Record ID: PUBLIC-774203
Object type: AWL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint awl or piercer, almost diamond shaped in plan and lozenge shaped in profile with one end more rounded. The upper right and left margins have been retouched. The lower left margin has some non-beach cortex on it covering 1-49% of the total surface area. The flint is a dark brown streaked with ochre in colour. Mercer (1981) illustrates a similar example on page 137, Fig. 60, No. L 171 which is dated to the Neolithic period.
Created on: Friday 8th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-623BB5
Object type: AWL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mottled grey to brown piece of flint with white inclusions, consistant in appearance with material derived from local beach pebble. The dorsal face has a medial ridge running along the centre from proximal to distal, the remaining point is located at the proximal end of the tool, while it appears that there may have been a second point at the distal end which may haven been snapped off then retouched to remove sharp edges. Retouching is present around the curves on both the right and left margins on the dorsal face leading up to both the stub (distal end) and remaining point (proxi…
Created on: Wednesday 1st June 2011
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-889462
Object type: AWL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint chert awl, sub triangular in plan and plano-convex in profile. The left and right margins have been retouched with possible use as a scraper. The distal tip has been bifacially retouched. The flint is a coarse orange beige with pale grey inclusions and was likely derived from a beach pebble. Bond (2005) illustrates a similar example on page 137, Fig. 5.124, No. F.28 which is dated to the Neolithic period.
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-A303E7
Object type: AWL
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible Awl. Most of the bulb of percussion has been removed from the ventral face. The lateral edges are parallel until retouch inter cuts into the right edge at the proximal end. The dorsal face has been retouched at the distal end. The left lateral edge has been abruptly retouched at the proximal end to form a point. The is use wear on the right lateral edge when looking at the dorsal face as well as at the proximal end on the ventral face. Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 109, Fig 5.93, No 159 which is dated to the Mesolithic period.
Created on: Tuesday 28th June 2011
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-EDFCC2
Object type: AWL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint pebble awl, triangular in plan and plano-convex in profile. The distal end has been retouched and worked into a piercer. It is a grey cream in colour with a burnt crazed broken cortex covering 1-49% of the surface area. Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 146, Fig. 5.132, No. 46 which is dated to the late Neolithic period.
Created on: Saturday 2nd July 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-421F61
Object type: AWL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint awl or piercer, roughly triangular in plan and concave-convex in profile. It has been bifacially retouched with some invasive retouching on the dorsal side. There is gloss half way down on the right margin. It is a mottled dark grey brown with cream flecks in colour. Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 144, Fig. 5.130, No. F.161 which is dated to the late Neolithic period.
Created on: Wednesday 6th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4834C1
Object type: AWL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint flake, lozenge-shaped in plan, sub-triangular in profile and section. It is a grey flint with white mottles and patches. The dorsal face has a sharp point at the distal end and a possible notch on the upper right margin. There is low-angle retouch on the upper left margin and short, semi-abrupt retouch on the lower left margin. There is secondary cortex on the right margin below the notch. The texture of the cortex suggests it came from a nodule. The ventral face has conchoidal ripples. Bond (2004) shows an awl on a flake that is similar on page 135, Figure 5.121, Diagram F58.
Created on: Wednesday 6th July 2011
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-D7B963
Object type: AWL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An awl on a prominence left by a transverse break of an over-heated piece of altered pink tinged opaque grey pebble flint. The awl point has parallel glossy invasive flakework on adjacent sides which could be deliberate to resharpen the edges or use wear. In either case heated flint shears with lower force to produce longer and glossy flake scars.Re-used burnt flint debitage seems to be a Neolithic phenomenon in this location but awls have a much wider date range with the underlying flakework style fragmented and fire altered beyond recognition. Butler(2005) illustrates awls on page 1…
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2011
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-92B275
Object type: AWL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint pebble awl, tear-drop shaped in plan and plano-convex in profile. The right and left margins have been retouched on the dorsal side with denticulation on the right edge. A medial flake has been removed on the ventral side and there is also retouching on the right margin. It is a two tone grey with a beige coloured crazed cortex covering 1-49% of the surface area. Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 143, Fig. 5.129, No. F.156 which is dated to the Neolithic period.
Created on: Friday 22nd July 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-1D3206
Object type: AWL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint awl made on a flake, roughly trapezoid in plan and lozenge shaped in profile. The right margin is snapped and the left margin is sharp edged. The distal end consists of non-beach cortex of which the top half is lighter in tone. The distal edge may also have been retouched. The flint is dark brown in colour and the cortex light and dark beige. Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 135, Fig. 5.121 which is dated to the Neolithic period.
Created on: Thursday 28th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-D36540
Object type: AWL
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small piece of blue/grey flint, dexfribed as blue patination by the finder. The dorsal face is uneven, but not rough in tecture, the right margin has clean sharp edges, until the medial, where the margin becomes concave in plan and reaches a point at the distal. Identification of micro retouch along the curve, until reaching the point of the distal. The left margin sappears to have been backed, by following the surface curvature of the piece. The proximal edges appears sharp as if snapped off, the edges are clean. The ventral face is curved, the proximal edge is more pronounced …
Created on: Thursday 18th August 2011
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-7ACB76
Object type: AWL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint awl, almost trapezoid in plan. The right margin has been retouched up to the distal tip. The left margin appears snapped at different angles. It is dark grey brown with light cream flecks in colour. Bond illustrates a similar example on page 143, Fig. 5.129, No. 160 which is dated to the Neolithic period.
Created on: Friday 26th August 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-7AF224
Object type: AWL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint pebble awl, almost square in plan and lozenge shaped in profile. The right margin has been retouched and could be used as a scraper and the left comprises backed cortex. The left distal tip could be used as a piercer making this a combination tool. The flint is grey brown in colour and the cortex dark cream covering 1-49% of the surface area. Butler (2005) illustrates a similar example on page 169, Fig. 71, No. 7 which is dated to the Neolithic period.
Created on: Friday 26th August 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-CF91C7
Object type: AWL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Awl. It is possible that the awl has been made on a oblique arrowhead. It is sub triangular in plan and D shaped in section. On the ventral face flakes have been removed from the left margin to thin the piece. There is minor retouch near the distal end which has been snapped into a point. The proximal end has also been snapped and a notch inter cuts the left margin. This has been made by a single blow and may possibly be a broken tang. There is semi abrupt retouch on the left margin of the dorsal face, which creates a convexed edge. The right edge has been abruptly retouched. Keene …
Created on: Sunday 11th September 2011
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-F5FD53
Object type: AWL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Awl with backed blade. The ventral face contains minor 'nibbling' along the length of the right lateral edge. The distal end has been invasively retouched. On the dorsal face the right margin has been snapped along its entire length to give natural backing for the blade on the opposite lateral edge. The left margin has been invasively retouched with subsequent 'nibbling' along its length. The distal end has been semi abruptly retouched to give a concaved edge which ends with a point on the left margin. The flint is dark grey with white fleks. Butler (2005) illustrates a similar exam…
Created on: Tuesday 13th September 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
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Record ID: PUBLIC-F680D8
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible awl. The 'business end' or distal end of the awl is missing. Almost all of the ventral face, both edges and distal end, has been invasively retouched apart from a central section. The proximal end has been heavily retouched, like 'crushing', which may have been used as the hand held part of the tool. On the dorsal face, flakes have been removed diagonally across the length of the piece, possibly to thin it. There is a small amount of cortex on the right margin near the distal end. The left margin has invasive retouch near the proximal end. The flint if grey/ brown nodular fli…
Created on: Tuesday 13th September 2011
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-5952F3
Object type: AWL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A spalled fragment of over-heated flnt with an original ventral surface and thermal dorsal surface. The flint is altered to a grey brown opaque colour. It is pointed at both ends and has been finely abruptly retouched at one end to make a drill, which could be hafted by using the other end as a tang or as an awl if held in the fingers. Butler(2005) illustrates a piercer on a blade on page 129, fig 54,2.
Created on: Friday 30th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-5A7980
Object type: AWL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A thin, hard hammer struck, curved flake of dark brown nodular flint with cream flecks. On the dorsal surface are the stepped flakelet scars from the platform preparation. The margins naturally converge to the distal end but this has been emphasised with notches and semi-abrupt retouch,;worked on the ventral side as well at the tip. This tool appears to have worked as a piercer or awl. Butler(2005) illustrates a piercer on page 129, fig 52, 1.
Created on: Friday 30th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-5DA800
Object type: AWL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A thick, twisted flake of triangular section in brown flint with coarse cream brown inclusions. The thick margin has been reduced in width by bold abrupt blunting retouch but becoming finer and sharper as it approaches the distal tip. The opposite margin is thinner and has a notch to reduce the width of the plan and then fine retouch to the tip.Butler(2005) illustrates awls and piercers on page 169, fig 71, 1-4.
Created on: Friday 30th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-713632
Object type: AWL
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint awl, round in plan and lozenge shaped in profile. The left margin, proximal end and lower right margin appear snapped. The upper left, distal and upper right margins are retouched into possible use as an awl and scraper. It is opaque pale grey cream in colour with iron stains on the lower left margin. Butler (2005) illustrates a similar example on page 111, Fig. 44, No. 12 which is dated to the Mesolithic period.
Created on: Saturday 1st October 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2012
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