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Description: | Three complete knapped flint thumbnail scrapers, dating to the Neolithic period, between 3500 ?? 2150 BC (average length: 22.5mm; average width: 22.5mm; average thickness: 8mm; collective weight: 13.6g). On the ventral side of these artefacts, the bulb of percussion is mostly visible on all scrapers although there are no visible eraillure scars or ripples/ ??lunettes??. On the dorsal side, there are no distinctive arrises and the retouch appears to continue around the complete circumference of the scrapers. All three scrapers are off-white in colour. 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 5.26. Bond describes these artefacts as having a flake blank which ??is small, rounded and ??button?? or ??thumbnail?? in size with retouch is commonly semi-abrupt.?? | 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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