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Description: | A complete knapped flint thumbnail scraper, formed on a flake, dating to the late Neolithic ? Early Bronze Age, between 3000 ? 1800 BC (length: 23mm; width: 20mm; thickness: 5.5mm; weight: 3.2g). On the ventral side of the scraper, there is a bulb of percussion with an eraillure scar and ripples or ?lunettes? radiating down and outwards from the feature. On the dorsal side, there are three main arrises with retouched edges to the left and top of the artefact. The retouched edge on thumbnail scrapers tends to be around the circumference, o near total edge, of the flake blank. The flake blank is small, rounded and ?button? or ?thumbnail? in size, with re-touch being commonly semi-abrupt (Bond, C, J, 2004, ?Guide to the Identification, Assessment and Recording of Lithics, Version 1?, page 207). | 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: | -3000
-1800 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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