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English: Five worked / knapped flint flakes of Neolithic date, circa 4000 - 2300 BC. No cortex present on any of the flakes indicating that they were formed from the tertiary working of the core. No retouch.

Individual flake details:

Column 1: Sub rectangular in plan and lentoid in section. The flint is an even dark brown colour and translucent at the edges. Fine grained. Bulb of percussion and conchoidal ripples present on ventral face.

Length: 26.72mm. Width: 19.07mm. Thickness: 4.95mm. Weight: 2.76g

Column 2: Sub oval in plan and lentoid in section. Heavily patinated in a mottled light blue and grey colour. The flint is opaque. Very shallow bulb of percussion and conchoidal ripples just discernible on ventral face.

Length: 28.21mm. Width: 17.64mm. Thickness: 4.24mm. Weight: 2.29g

Column 3: Irregular in plan and lentoid in section. Very light patination present on the ventral face. The flint is an uneven light and mid brown colour. The flint is fine grained and translucent from the edges to the centre. Pronounced conchoidal ripples present on the ventral face.

Column 4 / row 1: Irregular in plan and trapezoidal in section. No patination present. The flint is an uneven light brown colour. The flint is fine grained and translucent from the edges to the centre. Bulb of percussion, bulbal scar and faint conchoidal ripples present on the ventral face.

Length: 18.29mm. Width: 13.27mm. Thickness: 3.61mm. Weight: 0.85g

Column 4 / row 2. Sub triangular in plan and trapezoidal in section. No patination present. The flint is an uneven light brown colour. The flint is fine grained and translucent from the edges to the centre. The lower part of the bulb of percussion and very faint conchoidal ripples present on the ventral face.

Length: 13.55mm. Width: 14.31mm. Thickness: 2.42mm. Weight: 0.53g

A preliminary interpretation of the flints, prior to recording, by P Reavil is that the assemblage is indicative of a site used sporadically / periodically in the later Mesolithic period and more intensively in the Neolithic with the core use of the site being between Early - Middle Neolithic 4,000 BC - 2750 BC. With sporadic use in Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age. (pers. comm. P. Reavil, March 2014)