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As per the subject I have been investigating new areas at the weekend but not turning up anything too spectacular. Just traces of occupation that will encourage me to keep looking in these areas.
Group of non-descript scrapers with varying amounts of edge re-touch and use wear. Poorly made flint tools are sometimes thought to Bronze Age in date due to the skills being slowly lost.
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Group of burned flints from same area.
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A thinning waste flake from the same spot.
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Moving on to another site along the river Avon i picked up a few more 'bits'.
A long cortex flake, may have been used as a scraper as there is a uniform fine re-touch or wear mark along the straight edge. Nice obvious bulb of percussion too!
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A large waste flake sharp enough to have been a cutting blade. Begining to develop the white patina of age suggesting an early Neolithic date.
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Another piece of worked flint but heat affected. I find a lot of these burned flakes. I wonder if it was standard practice to chuck sharp flint waste into the fire? Less chance of treading on it there!
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Finally a fragment of a Mesolithic date microlith blade from the same riverside site. Close examination of this piece shows it has been tumbling round in the plough soil a fair time, some of the edges are quite rounded.
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Group of non-descript scrapers with varying amounts of edge re-touch and use wear. Poorly made flint tools are sometimes thought to Bronze Age in date due to the skills being slowly lost.
Enlarge this image Click to see fullsize
Group of burned flints from same area.
Enlarge this image Click to see fullsize
A thinning waste flake from the same spot.
Enlarge this image Click to see fullsize
Moving on to another site along the river Avon i picked up a few more 'bits'.
A long cortex flake, may have been used as a scraper as there is a uniform fine re-touch or wear mark along the straight edge. Nice obvious bulb of percussion too!
Enlarge this image Click to see fullsize
A large waste flake sharp enough to have been a cutting blade. Begining to develop the white patina of age suggesting an early Neolithic date.
Enlarge this image Click to see fullsize
Another piece of worked flint but heat affected. I find a lot of these burned flakes. I wonder if it was standard practice to chuck sharp flint waste into the fire? Less chance of treading on it there!
Enlarge this image Click to see fullsize
Finally a fragment of a Mesolithic date microlith blade from the same riverside site. Close examination of this piece shows it has been tumbling round in the plough soil a fair time, some of the edges are quite rounded.
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