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Awl
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Royal Institution of Cornwall, Kathy, 2011-11-27 09:44:56
Title
Awl
Description
English: Flint awl, pen shaped in plan and lozenge shaped in profile. On the dorsal side the distal tip has been retouched into an awl point. The right margin is sharp and the left has been retouched. The proximal end is snapped. On the ventral side the right margin has a retouched notch.

The flint is pale grey cream in colour.

Butler (2005) illustrates a similar example on page 169, Fig. 71, No. 2 which is dated to the Neolithic period.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Cornwall
Date between 4500 BC and 2100 BC
Accession number
FindID: 474651
Old ref: PUBLIC-206625
Filename: 207-6.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/357794
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/357794/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/474651
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