File:Awl (FindID 478559).jpg

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awl
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Royal Institution of Cornwall, Graham Hill, 2011-12-21 11:21:02
Title
awl
Description
English: A translucent orangey-red flake of chert.It may have been heated to reach this colour.The flake has been struck from the cortex of a pebble. The right margin has been trimmed with scallop shaped snaps to expose a point at the distal end. A lustrous flake has parted from the converging left and right margin; perhaps during use as an awl or piercer. Mercer(1981) illustrates a piercer on page 135, fig 59, L150.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Cornwall
Date between 4500 BC and 1500 BC
Accession number
FindID: 478559
Old ref: PUBLIC-1BFE06
Filename: img615.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/361365
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/361365/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/478559
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current12:40, 24 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 12:40, 24 January 2017446 × 384 (25 KB) (talk | contribs)Portable Antiquities Scheme, PUBLIC, FindID: 478559, neolithic, page 421, batch count 219

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