Record ID: WILT-1A405D
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Neolithic to Bronze Age flint scraper, probably dating to c. 3,300-800 BC. A tertiary flake of mottled beige-grey flint, with one surviving striking platform and relatively pronounced bulb of percussion, without a bulbar scar. The dorsal face exhibits a series of sub-parallel removals, all struck from the same platform as the overall flake removal, with pronounced conchoidal ripple marks. The distal end of the dorsdal face exhibits short, abrupt, stepped retouch. Length 41.1mm; width 44.7mm; thickness 11.1mm; weight 23.83g. It is difficult to date a single undignostic fl…
Created on: Monday 11th February 2019
Last updated: Monday 11th February 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-FE2E92
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic broadly rectangular blade with no cortex dating to 8300-4500 BC. The blade is a very light blue-grey in colour, and on both dorsal and ventral faces. The ventral face is very smooth, the dorsal face has a number of arises.
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2017
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2018
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: WILT-274260
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age flint end scraper dating to the period c. 2700 - 1601 BC. The Scraper is broadly ovular in plan and slightly concave in profile. The piece has been struck off a secondary flake and shows some cortex. The butt features a triangular striking platform with a lip at the interface between the butt and the bulb below which the ventral surface exhibits a diffuse bulb of percussion with a large bulbar scar, indicating that the piece was soft hammer struck. There is continuous short, stepped sub-parallel retouch running from the area of blunting around t…
Created on: Monday 6th October 2014
Last updated: Monday 6th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Poole Keynes', grid reference and parish protected.