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Description: | Number 5 on the attached photographs.A waste flake, which itself has had multiple bladelets removed from its surface. One end of the flake looks as though it may have been knapped (through secondary working) into a rough burin shape. The clean notch was possibly used for removing bark or straightening arrow shafts. Mesolithic (circa 8300 - 3500 BC).The flake weighs 7.11g. Some of the natural cortex survives on the dorsal surface of the flint.
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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