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Description: | A small collection of worked flints, dating from the Mesolithic period through to the Early Bronze Age. The collection includes four waste flakes, weighing 48g. Two of the flakes have bulbs of percussion. One of which is simply a waste flake, the other could have been worked along the platform edge of the bulb, though neither flake has been made into a tool. There is also a small (probably) Mesolithic blade, weighing 1.14g. The blade shows evidence of retouch, no bulb of percussion survives due to that fact that the flake has snapped (horizontally) in half; the ripples (which show where this flake was removed from the original core) are still evident on the back of the flake. It is clear that previous flakes have been removed from this flake (whilst it was attached to the core), as negative scars are evident on the front face of the flake. Finally there is a small (possibly) Mesolithic core (weighing 94g). The core has had a number of flakes removed from it, however much of the flints natural cortex still survives. There is no evidence of platform preparation and the core is very crude. It measures c. 36mm in height and the striking platform measures c. 39mm (diameter). | Subjects: | Mesolithic - Early Bronze Age (A collection of) Worked Flint | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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