|
Date: |
|
Description: | Notched back blade
Early Mesolithic -8000bc to ?6000bc
75mm long, 21mm wide, 6.8mm thick.
Triangular cross section, the left side blade shows signs of retouch down its length removed from the underside. At the base of the right side blade has a notch back concave blade with pressure flakes removed from both the obverse and the reverse sides. The right side blade has had the edge ground down from both the top and bottom sides to form a flat cutting edge, there is scaring/ scratching that cover half the width of the artefact on both the obverse and reverse faces from the grinding process. The blade also appears to have been polished. Remains of the cortex on the bottom left corner.
There is a bulb of percussion on the reverse but the striking platform is missing. | 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: | -8000
-6000 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
-
-
BLADE
Notched backed blade Neolithic Length…
-
BLADE
Notched backed blade
Neolithic
Length…
-
BLADE
Edge trimmed blade Mesolithic-Neolithic Length…
-
BLADE
Edge trimmed blade
Mesolithic-Neolithic
Length…
-
BLADE
Notched backed blade
Late Mesolithic…
-
BLADE
Notched backed blade Late Mesolithic…
-
BLADE
Notched blade Late Palaeolithic Length…
-
BLADE
Notched blade
Late Palaeolithic
Length…
|