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Description: | A complete knapped flint plano-convex knife, dating to the Neolithic period, between 3500 - 2150 BC (length: 57mm; width: 25.5mm; thickness: 7.5mm; weight: 15.4g). The bulb of percussion and eraillure scar are not present at the top of the ventral side of the artefact as a result of retouch. There are also no ripples/ ?lunettes?. On the dorsal side, there are no main arrises as there is retouch over most of the surface with sharp edges. The artefact has a light grey colour. Similar examples are illustrated in Bond, C, J, 2004, ?Guide to the Identification, Assessment and Recording of Lithics Version 1?, pages 58 & 208, fig 5.30. Bond describes this type of artefact as ?a knife made on a thin flake blank, plano-convex in section, with sharp edges and ovoid in outline. Scale-flaking on most if not all the total dorsal surface is common.? | 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
-2150 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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