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Description: | A flint end scraper. A secondary flake of blue-grey flint with reddish patches and off-white banding. There are several natural recesses and holes, some with crystalline deposits, within the flint. The flint has a high gloss patina and the dorsal face retains a band of thin pebble coretex. There is a wide striking platform at the distal end and a bulb of percussion with bulbar scar on the ventral face. On the dorsal face there are several ,longitudinal flaking scars . The distal end is somewhat plough damaged, but thre are remnants of retouch flaking.
Date: probably Neolithic
Dimensions: 50 mm x 32 mm x 8 mm
Weight: 19 g | Subjects: | scraper end-scraper | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hayward Trevarthen, Ciorstaidh - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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