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Description: | A complete flint fabricator. It has bifacial all-over working with relatively irregular crude and blunt edges. It has a thick cross-section, especially at the 'lower' end. The flint is plae to medium grey in colour and no cortex remains. This implement is unusual as it lacks the highly smoothed edges, especially at the ends, that often occur in fabricators, however it is still more likely to be a fabricator rather than an unfinished chisel which is the other possiblity. The function of fabricators is unknown currently although they are generally thought to be used for the later stages of pressure flaking finer flint tools. This fabricator is probably Neolithic or early Bronze Age in date. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | -4000
-700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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