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Description: | A complete flint sickle of Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age date (2500 BC ? 1500 BC). Length 73.0mm, width 48.0mm and 12.5mm thick. Weight 40.24g.
This single piece, bifacially worked, sickle is crescent-shaped in plan and has been produced on a primary or secondary flake. It is light grey with some lighter mottling. The ventral face has a bulb of percussion at one tip, although the morphology of the bulb is largely lost by having been retouched. There are also indistinct ripples on this face that are associated with the conchoidal fracturing. Short flaking around most of the edges is short and irregular although one short length could be described as being scaled. On this face, about 40.0mm from one of the tips, there is a small cusp-shaped notch which has been deliberately created by short abrupt flaking. Gloss is present on this face close to the cutting edge.
The dorsal face has been invasively worked and covers about 60% of the surface area. The remaining area, close to the cutting edge, is formed of cortex which is light brown/buff coloured. There is no evidence of gloss on this face.
The piece does not have any modern breaks and is in good condition. | 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: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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