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Description: | A complete flint discoidal knife of Neolithic or Early Bronze Age date (3500 BC - 1500 BC. Length 109.0mm, width 86.0mm and 17.0mm thick. Weight 188.12g.
The implement, a large discoidal knife, is sub-oval in plan and lentoid in transverse cross-section. It is made of flint which is grey patinated and the flaking covers the whole of each face. The edges of each shorter side have been finely polished.
The implement is undamaged and was found on the surface. It is in a remarkably good condition.
A similar implement, although slightly smaller and having a length of about 92.0mm, has been published as a discoidal knife (Butler 2005, 170-72, fig. 72, ref. 3). Butler suggests that discoidal knives are frequently associated with Grooved Ware pottery. Jeff Spencer, Historic Environment Record Officer of the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust, has commented that they are rare in Wales, but are thought to date from the Neolithic and 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: | -3500
-1500 | 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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