Description: Broad Period: Circa. 6500BC - 5000BC. Field Context: Late Mesolithic into Neolithic recovered from a newly discovered suspected seasonal / permanent settlement site. Physical Details: Size: length. 110 mm [4.3"]. width. Uniform 54 mm [2.13"]. thickness. 20 mm- 30 mm. Weight: 313 grams [11oz]. Description: This is an unusual and rare find as a suspected flint hammer head ina tan to brown flint. The flint has been worked into a regular rectangular form with a uniform width from the hammer striking face to the curved and thinned out hafting rear. From my detailed pictures one can appreciate the areas of reduction and assoc scarring to the flint surfaces. I suspect that this example would have been hafted upon a wooden pole with the oviod rear of the hammer fitted into a corresponding hole to the timber handle. Condition: very fine complete. The flint has an excellent patina with dark to light iron and salt oxides to all surface. The stone has an archaic polished finish particularly to the hafting zone. Provenance: Northern Cambridgeshire - salt marsh margins. Recovered field walking autumn 2024 in on the northern Cambridgeshire Fenedge. The stone was found in a new search location identified tracking an ancient dry riverbed seen from drone aireal reconnaissance. NB* please note... due to significant postal service increased costs my domestic and international costs have increased incrementally, I DO NOT make profit within these costs - thank you . Reference material and further reading: Where possible ancientartifactsmay be referenced to similar material observed in the following publications within my collection: British Artefacts Vol.1, 2 and 3:Brett Hammond [Greenlight Publishing 2010]: Celtic & Roman Artefacts:Nigel Mills[Greenlight Publishing 2007]: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome:Mary Beard [Profile Books 2015]: 50 Bronze Age Artefacts: Portable Antiquities Scheme:Dot Boughton [Amberley Publishing 2021]: Pottery in Britain 4000BC to AD 1900:Lloyd Laing [Greenlight Publishing 2003]: British Iron Age Coins In The British Museum:Richard Hobbs [British Museum 1996]: Swords of The Viking Age:Ian Peirce: [The Boydell Press 2003]: Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Volume 85:[Cambridge University Press 2019]. Mesolithic Europe:Geoff Bailey / Penny Spikins [Cambridge University Press 2008] Viking Art:James Graham-Campbell: [Thames & Hudson, London 2018] Roman Coins Vol. 1, 2 & 3:David R Sear: [Spink London 2000]: The Roman Cavalry:Karen R. Dixon: [B. . Batsford 1997]: Romes Saxon Shore: CoastalDefensesof Roman Britain AD 250 500:Nic Fields [Osprey Publishing 2006]: Amulets of Ancient Egypt:Carol Andrews: [University of Texas Press / British Museum Press 1994]: The Uniforms of the Roman World: Military dress, weapons, artillery, ships, siege engines and fortifications:Kevin F. Killey: [Anness Publishing 2017]: Where possible finger rings may be referenced to similar material observed in the following publications within my collection: Victorian and Albert Museum CATALOGUE OF FINGER RINGS 1930:C.C.Oman [Anglia Publishing. 1991 Now out of print]: Finger Rings:Diana Scarisbrick / Martin Henig: [Ashmolean Museum Oxford. 2003]: Ancient Rings An Illustrated Collectors Guide:T. N. Polio: [McFarland & Co Inc.2018: 1000 Rings: Inspiring Adornments of the Hand:Le Van, Marthe; Ebendorf, Robert [W: Lark Books 2004]: Copyright Ancient Pasts 2024 | All rights reserved.
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