File:205 Early Mesolithic blade, dorsal (FindID 71588).jpg

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205 Early Mesolithic blade, dorsal.jpg
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Bristol City Council, Kurt Adams, 2004-08-02 12:02:16
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205 Early Mesolithic blade, dorsal.jpg
Description
English: Blade
  Early Mesolithic
62mm long, 22mm wide, 8mm.

On the ventral side there is the bulb of percussion at the top, with very few shallow ripples emanating outwards. One arise on the dorsal on the left side on the top right side there is the remains of the cortex whilst down the last two thirds is a blade. This blade has been retouched and is slightly serrated.

Bluish/grey patina with lighter grey mottling.

This object is part of a large assemblage of 511 flints. See GLO-BCDA95 for further information on the rest of the assemblage.

See the following records for a more detailed description of all the various tool types in this assemblage.

GLO-BD12D6 33 Microliths, Late Mesolithic.
GLO-BD5887 168 Blades, Late Mesolithic.
GLO-BDA977 Burnt flint, Mesolithic-Neolithic.
GLO-BDE290 35 Miscellaneous Retouched Flint Tools, Mesolithic-Neolithic.
GLO-F97CD6 21 notched backed blades, Late Mesolithic.
GLO-F9B535 2 notched backed blades, Early Mesolithic.
GLO-F9E575 4 notched backed artefacts, Late Mesolithic-Neolithic.
GLO-FCF783 9 saws/serrated edge blades, Late Mesolithic-Neolithic.
GLO-8F1425 42 Miscellaneous lithic artefacts, Mesolithic-Neolithic.
GLO-8F6712 42 Burins, Mesolithic-Neolithic.
GLO-8F92F3 97 fragments of debitage, Mesolithic-Neolithic.
GLO-8FE667 12 flakes, Neolithic.
GLO-9023A3 8 cores, Mesolithic – Neolithic.
GLO-908724 18 points, Mesolithic – Neolithic.
GLO-90C478 6 scrapers, Neolithic.
GLO-A1B033 4 scrapers, Mesolithic (probably).
GLO-A1D9B7 4 side and end scrapers, Mesolithic (probably).
GLO-A1E2C4 Side scraper, Mesolithic (probably).
GLO-A24824 Blade, Early Mesolithic.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Gloucestershire
Date MESOLITHIC
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FindID: 71588
Old ref: GLO-A24824
Filename: 205 Early Mesolithic blade, dorsal.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/32193
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/32193/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/71588
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current08:56, 1 February 2017Thumbnail for version as of 08:56, 1 February 20171,077 × 1,566 (296 KB) (talk | contribs)Portable Antiquities Scheme, GLO, FindID: 71588, mesolithic, page 1582, batch direction-asc count 8548