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| *****SWAAG_ID***** | 907 |
| Date Entered | 18/11/2015 |
| Updated on | 22/11/2015 |
| Recorded by | Tim Laurie |
| Category | Archaeological Find |
| Record Type | Archaeology |
| SWAAG Site | Low Row Pastures |
| Site Access | Public Access Land |
| Record Date | 12/10/2015 |
| Location | Brownsey Moor, Stoups Rigg |
| Civil Parish | Melbecks |
| Brit. National Grid | Hidden |
| Altitude | 430m. |
| Geology | Outcrop of the Five Yard Limestone overlooking a peat infilled mire, once an upland tarn. |
| Record Name | White patinated flint end scraper with some associated artefact finds from this location. |
| Record Description | This flint end scraper is a fine example of an artefact type which is characteristic of Mesolithic assemblages. Scraper forms of Neolithic Age tend to have retouch which extends over a larger proportion of the perimeter of the scraper.
This artefact is the latest find from a locality which has produced a large assemblage of flint,chert and occasional quartzite artefacts, some of which are shown below.
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| Dimensions | See photos |
| Additional Notes | This fine small scraper was found at a known lithic scatter site which, being at a view point directly above a constant spring on the south side and a peat infilled mire on the north, which during prehistory would have been an open tarn surrounded by woodland, thus conforming to the localities preferred by mesolithic hunter groups.
However, preferred localities like this were re-occupied time and time again through centuries and millennia and the artefacts collected are of different periods, reflecting different lithic technologies and human cultural activities through prehistory.
The very few microliths found here are of Later Mesolithic character being geometric in form (rods and crescents) and extremely small, ie they are minute: being less than 10mm in length and less than 4mm wide, see image nos.
However the presence of several burins and the small shouldered poin indicate an Early Mesolithic presence here also. |
| Image 1 ID | 6561 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 1 Description | End scraper, white patinated flint |  |
| Image 2 ID | 6562 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 2 Description | Selected artefacts of flint and chert |  |
| Image 3 ID | 6568 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 3 Description | End scraper, White patinated flint. |  |
| Image 4 ID | 6570 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 4 Description | Struck flake, Quartzite. Dorsal view. |  |
| Image 5 ID | 6571 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 5 Description | Struck flake, Quartzite. Ventral view. |  |
| Image 6 ID | 6563 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 6 Description | Small shouldered point (Pointe a cran). |  |
| Image 7 ID | 6564 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 7 Description | Broad chert flake suitable as a blank for converting to an arrowhead |  |
| Image 8 ID | 6565 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 8 Description | Selected artefacts of flint, olive chert of unknown origin and black Pennine chert. Dorsal view |  |
| Image 9 ID | 6566 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 9 Description | The same selected artefacts of flint and chert. Ventral view |  |
| Image 10 ID | 6567 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 10 Description | Burin on chert blade and small bladelet with cortex |  |
| Image 11 ID | 6576 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 11 Description | Selected artefacts |  |
| Image 12 ID | 6577 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 12 Description | Selected artefacts |  |
| Image 13 ID | 6574 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 13 Description | Lunate microlith, unpatinated flint retouched on both upper surfaces. |  |
| Image 14 ID | 6575 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 14 Description | Rod microlith, white patinated flint. Broken. |  |
| Image 15 ID | 6578 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 15 Description | View from the outcrop of the Five Yard Limestone southward over the springs across and down Swaledale |  |
