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| *****SWAAG_ID***** | 699 |
| Date Entered | 13/03/2013 |
| Updated on | 15/03/2013 |
| Recorded by | Tim Laurie |
| Category | Lithic Find / Scatter |
| Record Type | Archaeology |
| Site Access | Public Access Land |
| Record Date | 01/01/2005 |
| Location | Above Calvert Houses |
| Civil Parish | Muker |
| Brit. National Grid | Hidden |
| Altitude | 450m |
| Geology | Morainic drift over limestone. |
| Record Name | Two barbed and tanged arrowheads found close to but not with lithic finds reported on SWAAG Record No 115 |
| Record Description | Two stray finds: very small barbed and tanged arrowpoints, Sutton Type (Stephen Green, 1984. 'Flint Arrowheads:Typology and Interpretation.' Lithics No5. The first of these being being of black pennine chert and the other of unpatinated black translucent flint.
These two arrowheads were found on erosion patches close to the now upgraded landrover track which crosses the moor above Calvert Houses. The main concentration of lithic finds which are detailed on Record 115 were collected from the deep ruts of the original track. This track has now been levelled and resurfaced to meet modern shooting vehicle standards of comfort. The findsite of these lithics has in cocequence disappeared. All the original lithic finds at this location are in the Richmond Folk Museum. |
| Dimensions | See photographs |
| Additional Notes | This record is to be read in conjunction with SWAAG Record No 115.
These two small arrowpoints of Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age character were found on a large erosion patch and at the edge of a modern landrover track within 100m of a concentration of lithic finds of several very different periods, for details of all these finds see SWAAG Record No 115.
These two arrow points are stray finds and may be, but cannot be assumed to be, of the same age as the scrapers and a proportion of other finds at the main concentration which are of the same black translucent flint and of the same black Pennine chert.
The presence of patinated flint points, small micro scalene triangles in flint and a fine chert tranchet axe together with borers, burins and the scrapers and much waste material indicates that this vantage site was intermittently occupied by hunting groups from the Early Mesolithic through to the Early Bronze Age.Say from as early as 8000yrs BC to as late as 1800BC
Differing raw flint material, differing patination and differing technologies on artefacts present on or close to the same site are indicative of intermittent re-occupations of favourable hunting vantage sites at widely differing dates. |
| Image 1 ID | 4194 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 1 Description | The two barbed and tanged arrowpoints, one of black pennine chert- the other of black translucent flint. |  |
| Image 2 ID | 4195 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 2 Description | The same arrowheads, but obverse side |  |
| Image 3 ID | 4196 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 3 Description | The small black chert arrowhead. |  |
| Image 4 ID | 4197 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 4 Description | The same as last but obverse side. |  |
| Image 5 ID | 4198 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 5 Description | The small black unpatinated flint arrowhead. |  |
| Image 6 ID | 4199 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 6 Description | The same as last but obverse side. |  |
