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Description: | Flint serrated blade that is sub-rectangular in plan, with sub-parallel lateral margins, and triangular in section, with a central dorsal ridge. The original flake was struck off a large blade core with two platforms. No cortex remains suggesting that this is a tertiary flake. The blade seems to have been prepared but not reworked as such (Alison Roberts, Ashmolean Museum, pers comm). The ventral face has some scarring above the proximal end, possibly caused by frost fracture, running from the centre of the blade to the left edge. There are two notches just above the bulb of percussion at the proximal end, one above the other, which might have been located there for hafting purposes. The distal end is divided, by a natural facet in the material, into two projecting points. The only evidence of usewear is in the gloss on one of these points, the one at the distal end of the ventral face. The flint is light grey in colour and opaque and not local to the area. The length to breadth ratio is about 3:1. The flint serrated blade is typical of those from the Early Bronze Age, which ties in with the other flint and stone artefacts found nearby. Bond (2004) illustrates a serrated blade on page 151, Fig.5.135, No.F137, which is dated to the Early Bronze Age.
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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