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Description: | Pressure flaked, from grey flint. One face almost flat, other more convex. Spearhead? Knife blade?
"During the Neolithic in Britain, about 4000-2000 BC, accomplished flint knapping produced some highly finished items, such as arrowheads, knives, sickles and laurel leaf points. These, along with ground stone artifacts, were probably objects denoting high social status. This laurel-leaf point is made in high quality, grey flint. It is made on a flake, which has been subsequently pressure flaked, producing the flat parallel scars on each surface, and has been sharpened around the edge by invasive retouch. One face is almost flat, the other more convex. This laurel-leaf point may have been a spearhead, utilitarian or for show, or possibly a knife blade. It is in fresh condition, suggesting that it has not been used. It probably dates from the later Neolithic period."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 3000 BC-1800 BC; NEO EBA | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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