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Description: | Flint scraper or blade from the end of the Mesolithic period. The scraper is hexagonal in plan. The two long sides both look to have some retouching. The dorsal face has had 3 flakes taken off, the centre is flat with sloping sides. The ventral face shows the conchoidal ripples caused by striking the flake from its core. The top end appears broken which would suggest a function as a blade rather than a scraper. At the bottom the end has been retouched, to make it flatter, there is no clear striking platform. The flint is a brown colour all over.
This flint was seen by Peter Reavill at the rally in Myddle and he says
'This flint is typical of the material we see in Shropshire from the final phase of the Mesolithic and the very early Neolithic 5000 - 300 BC where the blade cultures are still dominant. I expect the function would be as a crude scraper or a blade. There is no natural source of flint locally and much of the flint is derived from glacial or riverine deposits.' | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | McIntosh, Frances | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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