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Description: | Horse-shoe shaped, probably Late Neolithic, flint scraper. Almost circular in plan it is made on a promary flake with cortext covering all unretouched areas of the dorsal face. There is a prominant bulb of percussion on the ventral face and the point of strike is damaged. There is semi-invasive, semi-abrupt, parallel retouch around the distal end and both sides on the dorsal face. There is also a smallarea of scalar retouch on the ventral face to the right of the bulb of percussion which creates a small notch, possibly for grip.Semi transluscent mid brown flint with a large area of pale brown mottling. It is 37.3mm long, 39.2mm wide and 15.5mm thick; it weighs 24.97 grams.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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