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Ann Clarke MA, MA, MLitt, MIFA, FSA Scot

Looking towards Hoy from Ness of Brodgar

With over 25 years of experience in lithic research I offer confident assessment of your stone artefact assemblages. I have an extensive knowledge of flaked lithic, worked pumice and coarse stone tool assemblages from the Mesolithic through to the Early Historic period. All catalogues and reports are prepared to publication level.

Along with freelance work I have initiated  and completed several independent research projects including a synthesis of stone tools from prehistoric Orkney and Shetland (Clarke 2006), a study of the context of coarse stone tools from Mesolithic sites (Clarke 2009) and an examination of the relationship between style and deposition of stone axes from Orkney (Clarke forthcoming).

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By Ann – October 28, 2009

Excavation and Fieldwalking

At West Heslerton, North Yorkshire continuing excavations in advance of sand extraction have recovered 11,500 flint artefacts from an area of 5ha. The assemblage was formed during discrete episodes of occupation throughout prehistory from the Late Mesolithic right through to the Late Bronze age/ Early Iron Age. Various methods of deposition are represented including in situ manufacture and use, occupation spreads and deliberate deposits in pits and graves.
At West Heslerton, North Yorkshire continuing excavations in advance of sand extraction have recovered 11,500 flint artefacts from an area of 5ha. The assemblage was formed during discrete episodes of occupation throughout prehistory from the Late Mesolithic right through to the Late Bronze age/ Early Iron Age. Various methods of deposition are represented including in situ manufacture and use, occupation spreads and deliberate deposits in pits and graves.
A fieldwalking exercise by the Lanark and District Archaeology Society covered 300 acres ploughed in advance of forestry planting. Over 2200 flaked lithics were recovered including flint, chert and pitchstone. The assemblage represented activity in the area dating from the Late Mesolithic to the Bronze Age. A full account is published in Clarke, A 1989 'Corse Law, Carnwath, Lanarkshire: a lithic scatter' PSAS 119, 43-54.
A fieldwalking exercise by the Lanark and District Archaeology Society covered 300 acres ploughed in advance of forestry planting. Over 2200 flaked lithics were recovered including flint, chert and pitchstone. The assemblage represented activity in the area dating from the Late Mesolithic to the Bronze Age. A full account is published in Clarke, A 1989 'Corse Law, Carnwath, Lanarkshire: a lithic scatter' PSAS 119, 43-54.

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By Ann – January 18, 2010