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Description: | Three waste flakes from flint working. All three pieces have heavy chalk patination. There are two large pieces which both have large bulbs of percussion from being stuck hard during the rough shaping of the flint nodule. The first (looking left to right in the photograph) is 64.8mm long by 49.5mm wide by 14.9mm thick and weighs 37.4g. The second is 44.6mm long by 39.3mm wide by 10.0mm thick and weighs 14.8g.The third piece is a secondary blade with cortext remaining at the distal end and on the edges. It has a small bulb of percussion and low widely spaced percussion waves suggesting a soft hammer was used. It is 46.3mm long, 24.4mm wide, 7.2mm thick and weighs 7.8g. The rough outline of this blade, the remains of cortext and the lack of retouch all suggest it is the remains of core preparation rather than being used as a tool.The presence of a blade struck from a prepared core and soft hammer work suggest a Mesolithic-Early Neolithic date while the larger flakes are more typical of Late Neolithic - Early Bronze Age work, we cannot be certain these all came from one flint working episode.Handed in with SUSS-78C8F8 to which it may or may not be related.
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