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Description: | Flint snapped end scraper, semi-circular in plan, triangular in section and in profile. The proximal end and both sides of the dorsal face have been unimarignally retouched. There is also a nick in the right edge of the dorsal face, but this is probably due to damage and not deliberate.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-2286F2 and CORN-24A3D6 for similar examples, which suggests that this may have been a more common occurance, as this is not the first group that the recorder has seen.The flint is a translucent grey-brown 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 as illustrated in Bond (2004) page 126, Fig.5.113, Riley's Type 2.Bond (2004) illustrates two similar examples, a scraper with distal retouch on page 147, Fig.5.133, No.F167, which is dated to the Beaker period, and a long end scraper on page 151, Fig.5.135, No.F125, which is dated to the Earlier Bronze Age.
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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