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Description: | Upper Palaeolithic Leaf Point (Dimensions >62x41x10mm.) in unpatinated glossy brown flint, with minor break at the distal tip. The dorsal face has invasive shallow flaking along the right edge, while the left half retains the dorsal surface of the flake blank with only minor retouch at the edge. The ventral face has invasive shallow flaking which thins the bulbar area and extends half way up the right side. The left edge is retouched by shallow flaking up to the break while the right distal edge has some minor recent damage.
This artefact closely resembles the leaf points described by Jacobi in the 2007 volume of the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, and may therefore be from the Early Upper Palaeolithic. This dates immediately prior to the Last Glaciation, a period for which there is very little evidence of human presence in south eastern England. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robbins, Katherine - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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