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Description: | Large flint flake, 110mm long and 39mm at its widest point. Most of the flake is flat (max 11mm thick) but it is circular in section at one end and broken, so an odd circular fossil is visible. The circular section is surrounded in coretex. Coretx covers approx.25% of the flake. The flat part of the flake is smooth on one side and curving - presumably the result of a strike, and the flake above it being lifted off. It has a milky-white patination. The other side rises to a ridge running the length at the middle. To one side of the ridge it has milky-white patination, to the other the flint is light brown/ translucent in colour. The outer edge of the brown half is edged with cortex 11mm thick, while the outer edge of the milky-white half thins to a sharp edge. It is not however worked - the chips that are missing along this edge show the browny-coloured flint beneath. This would have occurred long after the flake was struck, and they do not appear to have made any difference to the edge. Weighs 84.32g. Undatable Prehistoric. | 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 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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