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Description: | A flint core, used for striking small Levallois blades. The core is made up of fine quality black flint. At the base there is a patch of the original cortex from the parent nodule. On the other end, which formed the striking platform of each flake, there has been some preparation around the edge. There are the scars of 16 flakes around this core. This core has become rather narrow and so it was probably discarded, since any more flaking would be a danger to the fingers holding it. The size of the blades produced- microliths- shows that this core probably dates to the Mesolithic. | 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: | -10500
-4500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Dom Andrews | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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