Identifier: p1surreyarchaeol37surr (find matches)
Title: Surrey archaeological collections
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Surrey Archaeological Society
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Publisher: Guildford (etc.)
Contributing Library: Surrey Archaeological Society
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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valuable, we began cutting away an undisturbedpart of the eastern escarpment at plot 62 on the plan. The deposit and rainwash overlying the sand was herethicker than elsewhere, and at 4 feet from the presentsurface and sunk 8 inches below the level of the sand we werefortunate enough to reach an undisturbed circular hearth4 feet across. The hearth was composed of calcined flints, charcoal,sand burnt to a reddish tinge, and lumps of burnt clay.Intermingled were numerous pieces of pottery, flint imple-ments, flakes, bones, and teeth. The pottery consists of three types: (a) A coarse, well-baked pottery containing much crushedflint, the colours ranging from black to red. (b) A fine and polished ware containing little or nocrushed flint. It generally shows groove ornamentation,and is black in colour. (c) A fine grey paste containing no crushed flint, anddecorated with lattice ornamentation. The flint implements and flakes from the hearth numberedsome seventy-five in all, and consisted of:
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WORKED FLINTS AND FRAGMENTS FROM LA TENE IRON AGE POTTERY. From MaMon, Croydon. 62 A BURIAL OF THE IRON AGE. 63 1. A well-made fabricator, or more probably, perhaps, strike a light of grey chalk flint flaked and battered atthe sides, the point of one end rounded and polished withuse, i\ inches. 2. A tool or core of green-coated flint of blunt triangularshape. Flaked on two faces with edge much battered,i\ inches. 3. A sharp ridged implement of chalk flint pointed atboth ends and flaked on the base and ridges, 3J by 2 J inches. 4. An irregular ridged lump of chalk flint with steepfore-edge, 2§ inches. 5. A green-coated flint flake with large bulb, chipped andflaked at the bulb end, i\ inches. 6. A triangular chalk flint lump with crust, 2J by 2 inches. 7. A neat flake of honey-coloured flint with delicatesecondary working at side, iT9y inches. 8. A, B, C, D, four other irregular flakes. More than sixty other flakes, chips, and lumps from thehearth level, many of them and some of the i

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