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Description: | A double sided late Mesolithic or early Neolithic flint scraper. It is 67.4mm long, 46.9mm wide and 13.7mm thick. The scraper is made of a light grey brown flint heavily mottled with cherty inclusions. Some iron staining is visible.
The scraper was made from a secondary flake with c.5% cortex.
The ventral face is not retouched but shows a diffuse bulb of percussion with widely spaced ripples suggesting a soft hammer was used to create the flake. The dorsal face is faceted suggesting at least four previous flakes were removed. There is a chip out of the blade just below the striking platform on the dorsal face, this seems to result from the creation of the flake rather than later damage.
Both left and right sides are retouched on the dorsal face only. The retouch is shallow c.10-30 degrees, short and semi-parallel. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burnett, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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