File:Hammerstone (illustrated by George Scott) (FindID 818022).jpg

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hammerstone (illustrated by George Scott)
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Copyright retained by illustrator, George, 2016-12-02 12:02:28
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hammerstone (illustrated by George Scott)
Description
English: A beach pebble with percussion markings in the centre of both faces, perhaps used as a hammerstone. A wide sub-oval in plan, lenticular in profile and an elongated oval in section. The ventral surface shows signs of dense pecking in an approximately circular area around 35mm in diameter. The surface pecking in the centre of the dorsal face is similar in extent but far less dense.

The surface of the stone is uniformly pale creamy-grey in colour with multiple striations of red-brown iron carbonate. Made from a greywacke sandstone beach pebble from the Crackington Formation dating from of the Upper Carboniferous age (332 to 290 million years BP).

A very similar hammerstone, from a Bronze Age context at Trethellan Farm, Newquay is illustrated in Cornish Archaeology Vol. 30 (1991) on page 149, fig.62 no.102.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Cornwall
Date between 2350 BC and 800 BC
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FindID: 818022
Old ref: PUBLIC-162BF3
Filename: SMHD12.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/592924
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/592924/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/818022
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Object location50° 52′ 28.2″ N, 4° 29′ 42.04″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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