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Glass? blade? chip?

A hollow grey/pinked elongated blade-shaped piece of glass with smoothed surfaces.

PEZPH : 2005.29.128
Archaeology

Glass blob

A smooth clear grass piece.

PEZPH : 2005.29.31.2
Archaeology

Glass flake

A clear glass chip with curved surface.

PEZPH : 2005.29.122
Archaeology

Greenstone axehead, part

Greenstone axehead, one face completed, the other face and edges roughed out. Roughened face flat suggesting mounting as an adze

PEZPH : 1975.525
Archaeology

Greenstone axehead or adze

Butt end of possible greenstone adze found at Castle Gate, Ludgvan. Modern equivalent is a mattock.

PEZPH : 1975.526
Archaeology

Greisen bowl sherd

greisen bowl sherd

PEZPH : 1975.647
Archaeology

Hammer stone

egg shaped hammer stone with battering on one end, the rest smoothed

PEZPH : 1990.1653
Archaeology

Hammer stone

Neolithic or Bronze Age bun-shaped hammer stone with depression worked in the two flat faces. Possibly an unfinished mace head.

PEZPH : 1975.572
Archaeology

Hone

Medieval greenstone hone, with ground sides and grooved faces. One face has a cross-like indentation and the other side is dimpled with 40 small circular depressions. May have been used to sharpen hooks or needles, or used to push thick needles through leather or sails, circa AD 1200-AD1700.

PEZPH : 2010.52
Archaeology

Implement thought to be plough shear

PEZPH : 1990.1813
Archaeology

Iron age /romano-british stone bowl

Part of an Iron Age /Romano-British stone bowl including flat rim. Found at Vyneck, St Buryan.

PEZPH : 1975.646
Archaeology

Iron fragment

A fragment of iron found below turf. It has an elongated shape.

PEZPH : 2005.30.2
Archaeology

Irregular fint flake

A light coloured irregular flint flake chip which is unworked.

PEZPH : 2005.29.13
Archaeology

Irregular flake

A honey-coloured irregular flint flake with some cortex. The flake is unworked.

PEZPH : 2005.29.12
Archaeology

Irregular flint flake

A dark thin irregular flint flake chip which is unworked.

PEZPH : 2005.29.4
Archaeology

Irregular flint flake

A grey coloured irregular glint blade flake which is unworked.

PEZPH : 2005.29.2
Archaeology

Irregular flint flake

An irregular flint flake which is unworked.

PEZPH : 2005.29.11
Archaeology

Irregular flint flake

A light coloured irregular flint blade flake which is unworked.

PEZPH : 2005.29.10
Archaeology