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Description: | Fragment of well-worked flint biface with even, deep flaking resulting in a thin cross-section; made of dark honey/medium brown flint. Its identification is uncertain: either a very large leaf-shaped arrowhead (unlikely) or a laurel leaf (rather finer than most) or a dagger (possibly, but quite broad and perhaps not quite fine enough) or an unpolished discoidal knife (though these are usually polished). Probably the fragment represents the tip of whatever object it is, although it is not impossible that it is a sharp butt with convex sides which expand quite rapidly. Probably Neolithic; if a laurel leaf, early Neolithic. Surviving length, 39 mm; surviving width, 42 mm (original width at least 54 mm), maximum thickness, 5 mm.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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