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Description: | Flint conchoidal flake worked into a blade, triangular in plan, almost flat in profile and in section, with a hinge fracture on the right margin of the ventral face and bifacially retouched on the left margin.
The flint is a mottled light to dark grey colour, probably from a local beach pebble, and the length to breadth ratio is about 1:1. Some of the cortex remains at the left margin of the dorsal face, which suggests that it is a secondary flake.
Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example of a triangular hinge-fractured flake on page 152, Fig.5.136, No.F157, which is dated from the Late Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age.
Andrefsky (1998) illustrates a similar conchoidal flake on page 16, Fig.2.6, Ref:a. | 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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