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Description: | One complete knapped flint plano convexed knife, dating to the Neolithic period, between 3500 ?? 2150 BC (length: 28.5mm; width: 19mm; thickness: 6mm; weight: 3.7g). On the ventral side of this artefact, there is no bulb of percussion or eraillure scar remaining but the ripples/ ??lunettes?? are still visible. There also some retouch to one side. On the dorsal side, there are no main arrises but there is extensive retouch across the surface and part of the edges. The artefact has a light grey/ brown colour. A similar example is illustrated in Bond, C, J, 2004, ??Guide to the Identification, Assessment and Recording of Lithics Version 1??, pages 58 & 208, fig 5.30. Bond describes this type of artefact as ??a knife made on a thin flake blank, plano-convex in section, with sharp edges and ovoid in outline. Scale-flaking on most if not all the total dorsal surface is common.?? | 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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