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Description: | Small platform gun-flint, probably from a pocket pistol, almost square in plan, with sub-parallel lateral margins, and trapezoidal in section and in profile, with parallel faces. A flint core would have been quartered and knapped with metal punches to produce suitably broad rectangular flakes which would then have been dressed and segmented into square chunks. The flint has bimarginal worked edges, and worked distal and proximal ends. Apart from the edges, the ventral face is smooth and flat. The dorsal face is chamfered on both sides and at both ends, having been retouched abruptly to fit the pistol flint-lock. There are two bulbs of percussion on each of the mesial edges and the point of percussion is angular and thick with a right-angled scar at the bulb, typical of metal percussion. The dorsal face has a few flecks of the cortex remaining on the surface. Otherwise the flint is an even dark grey-brown colour with a length to breadth ratio of almost 1:1. Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 163, Fig.5.145, No.10c, which is dated to the Post-medieval period.
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