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Description: | Flint concave scraper made from a conchoidal flake, circular in plan, semi-circular in profile and lozenge-shaped in section. The distal end and right lateral margin have been unifacially retouched on the dorsal face. The left margin of the dorsal face is still covered in slin of cortex, suggesting that this is a secondary flake. The ventral face preserves the smooth conchoidal fractures rippling away from the fractured bulb of percussion at the proximal end. There are also ridges that run parallel to the hinge fracture on both faces, emanating out from the edge of the left margin where the flake was snapped. The proximal end has also been reworked to form an edge that might have been used as a graving tool.The flint is a mottled dark grey colour, probably made from a local beach pebble and the length to breadth ratio is exactly 7:6.Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example of a concave scraper from a Beaker site from Bradley (1970) on page 145, Fig.5.131, No.7.
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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