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Description: | Flint microlith, formed from a snapped blade, of later Mesolithic date (6500-4500 BC). The microlith is formed from the upper part of a blade which has been snapped. It is broadly sub-triangular in plan and in cross section. The blade has a clear striking platform and there is a bulb of percussion present on the ventral (lower) face; the dorsal (upper) face has a series of three rectangular blade scars. This suggests that the blade has come from the centre of a core rather than the edge which would have areas of cortex present. There are no areas of retouch present. It is likely that this microlith would have been set with several others into a tool, such as a harpoon, or multiple toothed blade. The flint is a mid grey colour. It measures 12.4mm in length, 13.2mm width, is 3.3mm thick and weighs 0.61 grams. | 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: | -6500
-3500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Peter Reavill | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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