File:BLADE (FindID 829041).jpg

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BLADE
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Somerset County Council, Laura Burnett, 2017-11-13 00:16:43
Title
BLADE
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A group of twenty six pieces of Mesolithic flint and chert debitage in the form of blades and bladelets, dating to the period c. 9000-2350 BC.

The majority of pieces have been struck off a tertiary flake with no evidence of cortex remaining. However three pieces have been struck off a secondary flake, retaining between 5 and 20% of their cortex. The dorsal faces on all pieces exhibit negative flake scars, with the majority of the assembalge only having only two (5 pieces have three or more negative flake scars). The ventral faces all exhibit a low diffuse bulb of percussion with weakly defined conchodial ripple marks. Several are snapped blades, in a few there is retouch evidence suggesting this was deliberate, others may be deliberate or accidental. A few have deliberately created notches, probably failed attempts to also snap these blades to create microliths.

The majority of the flint is dark grey in colour with, lighter grey and white inclusions, while the chert is a buff to dark orange colour with reddish orange inclusions.

The assemblage weighs 44g
Depicted place (County of findspot) Somerset
Date between 9000 BC and 2350 BC
Accession number
FindID: 829041
Old ref: SOM-85B209
Filename: SOM85B209dorsal.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/636772
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/636772/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
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Object location51° 00′ 14.76″ N, 3° 01′ 27.34″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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