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Description: | Grey patinated flint ?pick? or ?adze? of Mesolithic or Early Neolithic date (10,000 BC-3,000 BC). Length 145mm, maximum width 51mm and maximum thickness 33mm. Weight 267.25g. The pick is generally sub-triangular in cross-section and has a flat rear face with transverse radiating ripples which indicates that the implement has been manufactured on a very large flake. The other two faces have been formed mainly by removing flakes from the direction of the edges of the flat side towards the centre front in order to form a median ridge. Viewing the implement from the front, small areas of cortex survives at the butt end and on the lower right hand side. The sides of the implement are ?waisted? and the left hand edge has received concentrated hammering to acquire a roughened surface. The rough edge and the ?waisted? sides may have been deliberately fashioned in order to facilitate a haft. The blade has been produced by steep radial flaking. | 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: | -10000
-3000 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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