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Description: | scraper of oval form, or possibly an end-scraper, which has been snapped. It is 43mm long, 40mm wide, and 10.5mm thick at the thickest part. The scraper is roughly circular, the underside formed by a single smooth break, and the upper side also showing one upper flaked surface, which slopes upwards (i.e. the implement becomes thicker) towards the working edge. This edge is steeply set, with many small flakes removed. Some of these, on the fore-edge and on the right side, have broken through the original medium blue-grey patination which covers most of the tool and show more recent edge damage. It is therefore possible that the tool has had two separate phases of use, once at the original time of making,when the first edge-trimming flakes were removed, and then a second time much later when the patination had formed and the edge was re-sharpened by secondary flaking. The break, which has removed the bulb of percussion from the lower side, shows unpatinated black flint along the fracture edge. The implement is probably Mesolithic or Neolithic.
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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