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All rights reserved, Amy Downes, 2011-08-03 15:30:14 |
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Flint ring |
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| Description |
English: A lithic implement; a flint annular ring which probably dates from the 19th or early 20th century. It is made of opaque tan flint and has scalar retouch. It weighs about 2g.
This object has been identified by Hazel Martingel and is probably a rare survivor of the work of flint knappers during the early part of the 20th century. They were originally called 'fakes' but later 'replicas'. Bill Basham was one such flint knapper who made a flint necklace of rings very like this one. He also made a Flint alphabet! At the time, gunflints were made in Brandon in Suffolk and some of the skilled flint knappers included prehistoric style artefacts in their work. They were for museums who wanted to display the most recognisable types of flint artefacts. Sadly, when the notion that they were 'fakes' came in many were thrown out and lost, so they are now quite rare. There is a booklet on these items, including the illustration of the necklace, in Mason, H. J. (1978) "Flint the Versatile Stone". published by Providence Press. (ISBN 0 903803 01 I) The object is extremely unlikely to be a truly ancient object as no objects of this type are known from British prehistory. |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Leeds | ||
| Date | between 1850 and 1910 | ||
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FindID: 456735 Old ref: SWYOR-95AB74 Filename: ring.JPG |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/339820 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/339820/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/456735 |
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