Record ID: HESH-F13402
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Knapped flint blade of late Mesolithic date (6500 - 4000 BC). The lower part of the blade is deliberately snapped, whilst the upper has a considerable amount of cortex. The blade is broadly sub-rectangular in plan (having curved / convex and concave long edges) and oval in cross section. The presence of cortex suggests that the core is relatively new as this is usually removed in the first phases of working. The striking platform for the blade is lost suggesting that this is from the bottom section of a much longer blade. The upper / dorsal face exhibits several long facets / blade sh…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Thursday 22nd July 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brampton Abbots', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-51EA83
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Knapped flint blade of probable later Mesolithic or earlier Neolithic date (4500 - 3500 BC). The flint is broadly sub-rectangular in plan and lentoid in cross section. It has been struck from a relatively small core which has been worked in several directions. The ventral (reverse) face has a distinct bulb of percussion and conchoidal fractures; a slight striking platform is present on the heel of the flake. The dorsal face show several flake scars, The most recent are vertical where other blades have been removed; however on the left hand side of the flake a series of at least six pa…
Created on: Tuesday 1st December 2009
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brampton Abbotts', grid reference and parish protected.