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Description: | Flint snapped scraper, semi-circular in plan, triangular in section and rhomboidal in profile. The distal end and both sides of the dorsal face hs been unimarignally retouched.The scraper may have been broken through use if enough pressure was applied to shear it off from the other half that was still held in the haft. Alternatively, it may have been broken since being deposited through coming into contact with agricultural machinery. See CORN-002594 for a similar example, which suggests that this may have been a more common occurance, as this is not the first pair that the recorder has seen.The flint is a dark grey colour and would have originally been more elongated in plan, so its original length to breadth ratio is unknown. The width and medial ridge suggest that the ratio might have been closer to 2:1 than to 1:1, as illustrated in Bond (2004) page 126, Fig.5.113, Riley's Type 2 and Type 4.Bond (2004) illustrates two similar examples, an end scraper on page 137, Fig.5.124, No.F18, which is dated to the Earlier Neolithic period, and a short scraper on page 151, Fig.5.135, No.F131, which is dated to the Earlier Bronze Age. He also illustrates a snapped example on page 132, Fig.5.118, No.F15 which is also dated to the Earlier Neolithic period.
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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