File:213 piercer face (FindID 72012).jpg

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213 piercer face.jpg
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Bristol City Council, Kurt Adams, 2004-09-21 14:04:27
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213 piercer face.jpg
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English: Piercer 
   Mesolithic

   33mm long, 20mm wide, 6mm thick. 

   

   Bulb of percussion on the top of the ventral with slight ripples emanating outwards.  Arise running down the left side with three flaking scars coming off and forming a steep bevelled blade on the left, which has been retouched from both the ventral and dorsal sides.  The right side of the arise has a shallow slop that leads down to a blade on the right side, which has been retouched from both the ventral and dorsal sides.  The lower half of the right hand side blade is concaved terminating in a rounded retouched point at the base of the artefact.  

   

   Dark brown patina on the top half, fading to light grey in the lower half
A similar example was found at Hazleton North and was date to the Late Mesolithic (Saville, 1990, 162,165).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Gloucestershire
Date MESOLITHIC
Accession number
FindID: 72012
Old ref: GLO-38A7E7
Filename: 213 piercer face.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/36680
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/36680/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/72012
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