|
Date: |
|
Description: | Later Neolithic/ Early Bronze Age (3000-1500 BC) oval with rounded ends polished flint discoidal knife, measuring 77.85x64.69x11.29mm and weighing 69.06g. It has been damaged in antiquity and reworked at one of the shorter ends and on part of a long edge.The flint is grey in colour with medium patination spots. The discoidal knife has been bifacially worked and the very edges highly ground and polished to a point with c.3mm either sides of polished 'bevelling'. In cross-section, the discoidal knife is pointed oval.At one end the discoidal knife has broken but retouch has given this a jagged sharp edge. Another part of the edge has been damaged and not apparently retouched.Butler (2005, p.70-1) comments that often these implements have blunt edges casued by grinding and polishing, so were probably multi-purpose tools rather that knives per se. Butler also comments discoidal knives are often associated with Grooved Ware pottery.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
-
-
-
KNIFE
Flint discoidal knife, circular in…
-
KNIFE
Flint discoidal backed knife, ovate…
-
knife
Long flake with bifacial edge…
-
-
-
-
|