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Description: | Platform gun-flint, probably from a pocket pistol, rectangular in plan, with sub-parallel lateral margins, and trapezoidal in section and triangular in profile. A flint core would have been quartered and knapped with metal punches to produce suitably broad rectangular flakes which would then have been dressed and segmented into square chunks.
The flint has bimarginal worked edges, and worked distal and proximal ends. Apart from the edges, the ventral face is smooth and flat. The dorsal face is chamfered on both sides and at both ends, having been retouched abruptly to fit the pistol flint-lock. The bulb of percussion is on the mesial edge and of the dorsal face and the point of percussion is angular and thick with a right-angled scar at the bulb, typical of metal percussion. The flint is an even dark grey-brown colour with a length to breadth ratio of about 5:4.
Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 163, Fig.5.145, No.10c, which is dated to the Post-medieval period. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Tyacke, Anna - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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