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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 scars. There is unimarignal retouch from the proximal end, down the right edge of the dorsal face, creating a slight notch about half way along the edge. There is also unimarginal retouch down the right edge of the ventral face, creating a definite notch about half way along. These notches might have been made in preparation for knapping the flake into a leaf-shaped arrowhead, as it looks as if the direction of the scars would allow it. The colour of the flint is a translucent brown 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 with a notch in it on page 16, Fig. 2.6(a). Bond (2004) illustrates a similar but larger flake on page 140, Fig.5.126, No.8, 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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