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Description: | Flint thumbnail scraper, circular in plan and plano-convex in profile and section. The distal end and half of the lateral margins have been unimarginally retouched on the dorsal face. The proximal end of the dorsal face is still covered in cortex, suggesting that this is a secondary flake. The ventral face preserves the smooth conchoidal fractures rippling away from the snapped off bulb of percussion at the proximal end.
The flint is a mottled light gray-brown colour, probably made from a local beach pebble, and the length to breadth ratio is almost 1:1.
Bond illustrates a similar example on page 57, Fig.5.26, No.F36, and another example from a Beaker site from Bradley (1970) on page 145, Fig.5.131, No.9. | 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: | -2500
-1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Tyacke | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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