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Description: | Polished flint blade and notched borer which is sub-rectangular in plan and lozenge-shaped in section and almost flat in profile. The distal end has been bifacially retouched to form an awl and a graver edge, and the right edge of the dorsal face and left edge of the ventral face have been polished into a smooth edge, forming a blade. The opposite edge has also had marginal retouch to create an edge at right angles to the graver edge.
The flint is mainly a mottled light gray in colour, probably made from a local beach pebble, and the length to breadth ratio is almost 2:1.
Bond (2004) illustrates an example of a borer on page 146, Figure 5.132, No.46, which is dated to the Beaker period; and an awl on page 152, Figure 5.136, No.F157, which is dated to the Early Bronze Age. | 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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