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Description: | Hazel Martingell notes: Neolithic flint knife. This takes the form of a large, primary flake retouched around the perimeter. The ventral surface, including the bulbar area, has been flaked, probably to thin the flake and especially the edges. The ventral surface and retouched/flaked surfaces are all patinated. The patination is due to the artefact having rested in a chalk deposit for some time. Patinantion is not necessarily an indicator that the artefact is of earliest prehistoric date. This flaked flake is a simplified version of a Neolithic knife, it has a worn smmoth left edge. It dates from 4000-2000BC. | 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: | -4000
-2000 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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