Record ID: SOM-8EB056
Object type: MICROBURIN
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Knapped flint secondary blade with retouch creating two notches possibly as a preliminary to making a microlith. The proximal end, with the bulb of percussion, has already been removed, probably for the same purpose. The percussion ripploes remain on the ventral face thought the bulb is removed. It is broadly triangular in plan, thickening at the distal end, with aris running down the centre of the dorsal face and scars suggesting previous parallel blade removals from the same platform. There is a small patch (less than 5%) of cortex at the distal end. The edges are chipped all the…
Created on: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Last updated: Friday 9th August 2019
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: BERK-8C8F20
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Blade, possibly dating to the Mesolithic period.
Created on: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th August 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-8C7927
Object type: MICROLITH
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Mesolithic translucent white quartz or quartzite scalene triangle, or micro-triangular, microlith, probably a barb. While it is largely the same in plan as a flint barb, it is twice as thick due the coarser crystaline structure of its raw material. There are removals to the entire surface and a dark silver grey inclusion on the centre of the dorsal side. The proximal end has been finished with a single removal. Retouch confined to the dorsal side and is covering, sub-parallel, and abrupt on one mesal, semi-abrupt on the other. The unusual choice of knapping stone, given the local…
Created on: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 17th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wentnor', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: BERK-8C2F28
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic bladelet.
Created on: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 30th November 2016
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Record ID: BERK-8C2411
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bladelet with oblique truncation; probably dating to the early to middle Mesolithic period. Concretion on vental surfaces at proximal end.
Created on: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 30th November 2016
Spatial data recorded.