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Description: | Flint thumbnail scraper, sub-square in plan and plano-convex in profile and section. The distal end and lateral margins have been unimarginally retouched on the dorsal face. The proximal end has been narrowed by indenting reworking both lateral margins from the dorsal face, perhaps for hafting purposes. The dorsal face is still partly covered in cortex, suggesting that this is a secondary flake. The ventral face preserves the smooth conchoidal fractures rippling away from the snapped off bulb of percussion at the proximal end.
The flint is a mottled light to dark grey colour and was probably made from a local beach pebble. The length to breadth ratio is almost 1:1.
Bond (2004) illustrates the standard example on page 57, Fig.5.26, No.F36, and a similar example from a Beaker site from Bradley (1970) on page 147, Fig.5.133, No.F165. | 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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