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Description: | Three varied waste flakes found in the same area. Flakes 1-3 are arranged left to right in the photos.Flake 1: Small waste flake struck off a prepared platform with bulb of percussion, percussion waves and damage from mis-strikes at the proximal endof the dorsal face. c.10% cortex remains at the distal end. It is made of pale gray flint and weighs 1.72 grams.Flake 2. A probible waste flake or blade with a hinge fracture at the distal end and sides broken by statch fractures. Although there is no clear bulb of percussion percussion waves on the ventral face and a small area of short semi abrupt scalar retouch at the proximal end of the right edge of the ventral face suggests it is worked rather than naturally formed. It is dark brown in colour and weighs 6.80 grams.Flake 3: probably a waste flake with evidence of a prepared platform and very large bulb of percussion, the edges are all broken but there is some semi-invasive, shallow scalar retouch on the edge by the broken bulb of percussion. It is mid-orange in colour and weighs 11.56 grams.Other material in the vicinity includes some microliths as well as a bladelet core, small blades and flakes, some reworked into tools. In general the collection of material suggests a Mesolithic date (8300-3500 BC). Flake 1 is likely to belong to this collection whereas flakes 2 and 3 appear to be naturally broken or waste flakes which were urilised in a casual way and may not be associated with the other material. In particular Flake 3 is a noticably different colour suggesting a different deposition history.
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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