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Description: | A re-touched flint blade/scraper of probable early Mesolithic date. The piece tapers in width from 21.2mm wide at the ?bottom, to a point at the ?top and has a vertical central ridge which gives the tool a triangular section. There is a single row of re-touching along both of the vertical sides. At the ?bottom end is a small portion of the core platform and, on the reverse, a bulb of percussion and rippling. The tool measures 52mm high by 7.3mm thick and weighs 7.33g. The flint is a slightly weathered dark grey in colour. | 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: | -8300
-4500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Julian Watters | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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