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Record ID: PUBLIC-5F5236
Object type: CORE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An opposed platform core worked on a thick triangular section piece of black, lightly rolled pebble flint with opaque cream inclusions.Short flakes and blade flakes have been removed from abraded and bruised platform edges. Butler(2005) illustrates a 2 platform core on page 180, fig 74, 4.
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-5F1243
Object type: CORE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A single platform core of light grey flint with cream flecks, worked 3 quarters of the way aound the edge of the platform. It was a difficult pebble to work with internal flaws and step frctures terminated some of the removals. A few expedient removals were attempted from flake ridges transversely before abandonment.Butler(2005) illustrates a core on page 180, fig 74, 2.
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2012
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-5DAEE1
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint hollow scraper, oval in plan, plano-convex in profile and curvilinear triangular in section. Bulb on ventral face, with retouch along the distal end. Notched left edge on the dorsal face. The flint is honey yellow colour with lighter inclusions.
Butler (2005) illustrates a similar example on page 184, Fig. 75, No. 8, which is dated to the Bronze Age.
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2012
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Record ID: CORN-4B67F7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery body sherd made of gabbroic clay that weathers over the gabbro outcrop on the Lizard in Cornwall. The exterior has one oval depression where a large inclusion has eroded away from the matrix. The fabric has inclusions of pale felspars, dark augite and mica, and additional inclusions not natural to the clay to make it a gabbroic admixture. The sherd is mid-brown on the exterior and interior of the sherd with a dark brown core. This type of gabbroic admixture fabric is seen in Bronze Age vessels, dating from c.2100-1150 BC (Henrietta Quinnell, forthcoming).
Created on: Monday 16th January 2012
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-491F41
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A plain wall sherd of a pottery vessel. The outside is slightly orangey and glittering with mica and other small grits. Inside the fabric is black to the interior surface and full of angular grits of 0-5mm size. Most are fresh and clear. This looks like a granitic composition sherd. Others have been identified from nearby from The Bronze age.
Created on: Monday 16th January 2012
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-488CC5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn sherd with a reddish exterior which continues to about 3mm under the surface, where it becomes dark brown to the interior surface The clay composition has a base of small 1-2mm corroded white felspar with other small particles including angular black augite.This is likely a clay sourced from The Lizard area, Cornwall. Other larger grits have been added of up to 8mm; mostly vein quartz and corroded felspar. The decoration remaining is what is left of an informally laid herringbone pattern using pairs of twisted cords.This is circumferentially bordered by a pair of parallel incise…
Created on: Monday 16th January 2012
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-479753
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A wall sherd of fragile pottery; slightly abraded on its exterior, but with a dense and well executed decoration. The pot is uncurved in the long direction so the oblique pattern orientation is chosen as likely on the complete vessel.The panel of decoration is bordered by 2 close parallel lines of twisted cord. This finishes a panel of twisted cords orientated at right-angles and numbering at least 15 The clay composition has a base of small 1-2mm corroded white felspar with other small particles including angular black augite.This is likely a clay sourced from The Lizard area, Cornwal…
Created on: Monday 16th January 2012
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-473BB8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large plain wall sherd of pottery. The outside surface is orangey brown and smooth but for a network of fine cracks. There are sparkles of mica visible. Just inside, the fabric darkens slightly and maintains this colour to the inner surface. The clay composition has a base of small 1-2mm corroded white felspar with other small particles including angular black augite.This is likely a clay sourced from The Lizard area, Cornwall. Other larger grits have been added of up to 10mm; mostly uncorroded felspar. This is likely a Bronze age sherd. A similar one but from a base was found 3m awa…
Created on: Monday 16th January 2012
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-167E18
Object type: COMBINATION TOOL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A short curved flake of dark brown flint with cream flecks. It has been bisected through the bulb of percussion. The remainder of the margin has been snapped into scallops with some of them semi-abruptly retouched. The distal end has been abruptly retouched to an end scraper or a blunt hold. Butler(2005) illustrates a combination tool on page 169, fig 71, 5.
Created on: Saturday 14th January 2012
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-165E06
Object type: COMBINATION TOOL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a broken core of dark grey flint with on the back the abraded platform of a core with step fracture failed flake scars. There were hard hammer removals from several directions before it was shattered. The top surface shows reuse with a deeply ground notch and the lower right edge has been used as a scraper. Butler(2005) illustrates a combination tool on page 169, fig 71, 5.
Created on: Saturday 14th January 2012
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-0A40B7
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hard hammer struck thick triangular section flake of translucent dark brown flint . The dorsal ridge is bruised and there are hard hammered facets running from its striking platform. The flake is perhaps a remnant of a smashed hammerstone or strike a light? The left mesal edge has been sharply notched with abrupt retouch on the opposite margin. Butler(2005) illustrates a notched flake on page 169, fig 71, 8.
Created on: Friday 13th January 2012
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-06D7A0
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint scraper, trapezoid in plan and lozenge shaped in profile. The dorsal side has a serrated distal edge and right margin. The proximal end is snapped. The left margin consists of cortex. The surface has large flake removal. On the ventral side the left margin has a roughly serrated edge. There is also some flake removal.
The flint is mid grey with a secondary cortex of dark cream in tones and colouring.
Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 151, Fig. 5.135, No. F. 135 which is dated to the Bronze Age.
Created on: Friday 13th January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-00A6E2
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint scraper, triangular in plan and plano convex in profile. The dorsal surface is convex with invasive flake removal. It has an angle-snapped distal end and an abraded pointed proximal end. The left margin is serrated and the right unevenly snapped. The ventral side has a flat surface with flake chipping on the bulb of percussion.
The flint is mid grey with pale speckles in tone and colouring.
Butler (2005) illustrates a similar example on page 184, Fig. 75, No. 6 which is daetd to the Bronze Age.
Created on: Friday 13th January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-003A16
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint scraper, triangular in plan and plano convex in profile. The dorsal side has a high arched and ridged convex surface. There is a small notch on the distal end which is also serrated. On the lower left margin there is a curved notch and the right margin is denticulated. On the ventral side the left margin and distal edge are roughly serrated.
The flint has tones of cream in colouring.
Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 153, Fig. 5.137, No. 5 which is dated to the Bronze Age.
Created on: Friday 13th January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-FFEDB7
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint scraper, trapezoid in plan and plano convex in profile. The dorsal side has a hinge fractured distal end. The left margin has been irregularly worked. There is a visible bulb of percussion on the proximal end. On the ventral side the left margin has slight retouch and there is impact fracturing on the proximal end.
The flint has tones of pale to mid charcoal in colouring.
Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 151, Fig. 5.135, F. 129 which is dated to the Bronze Age.
Created on: Friday 13th January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-DE86B3
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A thick fragment of a pebble with spreading blue cream patination on grey flint . Flake scars around the sides are truncated as though it is a piece of a developed core. On the ventral edge an abraded scraper has been worked through the patination. Butler(2005) illustrates a scraper on page 184, fig 75, 3.
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-D457E5
Object type: FABRICATOR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large thick flake of rectangular section, struck from a pebble of mottled cream and grey flint.The tool is shaped like a segment of an orange with cortex on the outside and the straight edges utilised for a scraping task with shallow flakes detached and use gloss. The shape is like a fabricator but it has been used expediently without further retouch. Butler(2005) illustrates a fabricator on page 186, fig 76, 11.
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-B5E3F8
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A superb horse-shoe scraper worked on a hard hammer struck large, broad and relatively thin flake of translucent dark brown flint. A piece this size is likely to have come from imported Devon flint as local pebbles of this flint are smaller and often flawed. There is plenty of nodular flint and generous flakes of it on this find-spot in support of this idea. The platform was carefully prepared and is facetted. The dorsal surface is flattened by previous hard hammered feathered flaking but the fine retouch to curve the scraper edge was soft hammered. The work continues around part of t…
Created on: Monday 9th January 2012
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-B59ED8
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
An exquisite barbed and tanged arrowhead, complete except for the missing extreme tip. It has been pressure flaked over its surface; mostly transversely except for a little of the original blank remaining on both sides of the tang.The flint used is of translucent brown with cream flecks. Pebbles are available locally from the beach but it is hard to imagine that an imported nodule of Devon flint was not used, given the large and often wasteful use of it in this find-spot. Bond(2004), page 125, fig 5.111 gives this arrowhead a 'Conygar d' classification.
Created on: Monday 9th January 2012
Last updated: Saturday 11th May 2013
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Record ID: PUBLIC-A14294
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint scraper, ovoid in plan and plano convex in profile. The dorsal side surface is convex with two parallel mesial ridges. The distal end is fractured and the proximal end damaged and burnt around the cortex edge. The left margin is a single low-angle retouch and the right several low angle retouches. On the ventral side the distal end is chipped and the left margin is serrated. There is impact damage on the proximal end and conchoidal ripples emanating away up to the distal end.
The flint is mottled pale grey in colour with a secondary coretx of dar beige tones.
Bond (2004) il…
Created on: Sunday 8th January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2012
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