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Description: | An unfinished scraper from the Neolithic - Bronze Age (circa 3500 - 1000 BC). The upper face (dorsal surface) of the implement shows some evidence of having been worked. This surface still retains 50% of the original cortex. Negative scars are evident on this surface, most of which are deeply rippled, there is however no evidence of re-touch suggesting that this tool was thrown away before completion. However the shape suggests that the tool would have been made into a scraper. The lower face (ventral surface) has a small bulb of percussion and very little of the striking platform survives. Small ripples can be seen down from the bulb. There are also bulb scars on the lip of the bulb of percussion. The flint has a light-reddish brown colour, though patches of a much lighter cream colour are also evident. | 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: | -3500
-1000 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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