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Description: | Flint conchoidal flake with smooth conchoidal fractures rippling along the ventral face away from the bulbar scar, or bulb of percussion, and similarly on the dorsal face, within the negative flake scar. There is retouch from the proximal end, down the right edge of the dorsal face, but the denticulations down the same edge on the ventral face look more like the resultant damage. This might have then been used as a crude saw, but there is no evidence of use wear, unless that is what has caused the damage to the proximal end. The colour of the flint is a mottled mid to dark grey. No cortex remains on the surface of the flake, which suggests that it is a tertiary flake. The length to breadth ratio is about 1:1. Andrefsky (1998), illustrates a similar conchoidal flake on page 16, Fig. 2.6(d). Bond (2004) illustrates a similar but larger flake on page 140, Fig.5.126, No.7, which is dated to the Later 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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