Robin Hardisty Lithics Collection

Keith Boughey, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5284/1062854. How to cite using this DOI

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Overview

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Close-up of "Armorican" point (Fig 79.jpg: Row 2 no. 1)

The collection consists of over 2000 individual Mesolithic, Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age worked pieces, almost entirely of flint, with a few of local chert, taken off the stretches of moorland either side of the River Wharfe in West Yorkshire: the 78 sq. km of Rombalds Moor (comprising Addingham, High, Ilkley, Burley, Silsden, Morton, Bingley and Hawksworth Moors) to the south, and Middleton, Blubberhouses and Denton Moors to the north, covering no less than 52 distinct locations.

The worked pieces include microliths, arrowheads (barbed-and-tanged, Conygar Hill, leaf-shaped, tranchet) awls, blades, borers, hammerstones, knives, points, scrapers, and utilised flakes. Hardisty collected only what he believed to be worked pieces, ignoring waste, though inevitably some waste is present. All were collected from the surface of the local gritstone moors, often on or close to erosion patches as a result of repeated visits – no excavation was ever done.


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