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Description: | A piece of flint which may be a knapped tool. This appears to be a random lump of flint with an odd shape that has been knocking around in the soil for a long time. It has an awkward shape, having fractured along apparently random lines. However, there is a curving edge, along a flat plane, which although blunted, may have been a cutting edge at some point; it appears to have the scars of several trimming flakes, and when freshly split from the parent nodule would itself have probably been sharp, even without trimming. Indeed, the 'trimming' may just be natural damage. This may be a purely natural edge; however, there is another clue: if one holds the flint, with the edge facing down, then a protrusion from the side of the flint rests against the thumb/ palm. This protrusion has received repeated blows at some point in the past, which have had the effect of blunting this potentially sharp part of the flint. So it is possible that the blade was made, and then the lump was blunted so it could be comfortably held. So, this may be a rough Palaeolithic-Neolithic blade, or it may be a natural piece of flint that by chance has been bumped around in such a way that it resembles a crude cutting tool. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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