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Description: | Flint plano-convex knife, snapped in half, semi-circular in plan, plano-convex in profile and rhomboidal in section. The blade is unimarginally worked on the distal edge of the dorsal face, and looks to have been pressure-flaked. The removals for the retouch are sub-parallel. The ventral face retains two ridges towards the distal end, probably in response to the fracture.
The flint is a translucent honey colour, and is probably sourced outside Cornwall.
The knife may be half of a discoidal knife, as it looks like it might have been sub-rectangular when it was complete, like an example illustrated in Bond (2004) on page 59, Fig.5.32, No.L123, or on page 140, Fig.5.127, No.13, which is dated to the Later Neolithic; or on page 145, Fig.5.131, No.23, which is dated to the Beaker period. | 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: | -2900
-1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Tyacke | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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