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Description: | Complete flint pick of Late Mesolithic or Early Neolithic date (7000 BC ? 3000 BC). Length 148mm, width 62mm and 46mm thick. Weight 512g. The implement is sub-triangular in cross-section and when viewed from the side, is ?hump-backed?. The removals cover the whole of the surface except for a small area of surviving cortex along one of the edges. The cutting edge is formed by a number of semi-abrupt, long and parallel removals. The implement has an orange/brown patina overall and the cortex is pale grey. | 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: | -7000
-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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