File:A view of a Mesolithic or Neolithic blade. (FindID 82576).jpg

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A view of a Mesolithic or Neolithic blade.
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Angie Bolton, 2004-12-07 14:31:51
Title
A view of a Mesolithic or Neolithic blade.
Description
English: The blade either dates to the Mesolithic to Neolithic period. It has been knapped from a mottled grey coloured flint. The distal end is missing, but otherwise it appears to be complete. There are a number of vertical negative scars forming a sub-trapezoidal shape in section. In plan it is an elongated triangle.

It measures 38.3mm long, 14.8mm wide and weighs 4.03g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Warwickshire
Date between 8300 BC and 2100 BC
Accession number
FindID: 82576
Old ref: WAW-5BB167
Filename: WAW-5BB167.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/45375
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/45375/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/82576
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Object location52° 03′ 23.04″ N, 1° 32′ 11.72″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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current08:15, 2 February 2017Thumbnail for version as of 08:15, 2 February 2017371 × 853 (23 KB) (talk | contribs)Portable Antiquities Scheme, WAW, FindID: 82576, mesolithic, page 2191, batch direction-asc count 19504