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Neolithic or Bronze Age borer
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Norfolk County Council, Erica Darch, 2014-02-06 17:15:08
Title
Neolithic or Bronze Age borer
Description
English: A large hand held boring tool or possible pointed "fabricator" made on a core of surface flint of unusual dark reddish colour with a large area of pale cortex remaining at the butt end. The flint exhibits natural thermal fractures which have been enhanced by first invasively flaking and then a second row of steep flaking to form a point at one end.

Most of the flakes have been removed from both lateral edges of one face and the edges themselves are heavily abraded from use although the tip is fairly fresh and unworn, suggesting its use as a rotary boring tool for enlarging holes rather than a pick.

Fabricators, sometimes made on cores, were in use from the Mesolithic through to the Late Bronze Age, though it is more likely to be a borer of the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. 98 x 71.5 x 10mm.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Norfolk
Date between 3000 BC and 1501 BC
Accession number
FindID: 599933
Old ref: NMS-3A4083
Filename: 59728_3A4083_NEO_Borer.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/455518
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/455518/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/599933
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Object location52° 27′ 10.08″ N, 1° 01′ 58.66″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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