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Description: | A complete knapped flint horseshoe scraper, dating to the Late Neolithic period, between 2500 ?? 2150 BC (length: 53.5mm; width: 54.5mm; thickness: 19mm; weight: 61.7g). The scraper is sub-circular in shape and has a mottled grey colour. On the partially flat ventral side of the artefact, the bulb of percussion and ripples or ??lunettes?? are not visible. This is due to a small number of retouched areas on the surface. On the dorsal side, there are multiple arrises as a result of the knapping process as well as heavy retouching all the left, right and distal edges. There is no retouch on the proximal end. A similar example is illustrated in Bond, C, J, 2004, ??Guide to the Identification, Assessment and Recording of Lithics, Version 1??, pages 57 & 207, fig 5.25. Bond also states that the retouched edge on these artefacts ??tends to be over an extensive area, with emphasis on the distal and/ or the left and right mesial edges. Flank blanks are large, retouch is commonly semi-abrupt, short, parallel and continuous.?? | Subjects: | horseshoe | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Johnson, Caroline - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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