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Description: | Blade retouched in several places to make a cutting tool. The tertiary blade has multiple arises from previous removals and a clear bulb of percussion and percussion waves although any prepared platform has been lost due to retouch. There is semi abrupt scalar retouch on the ventral side of the distal end. There is a notch created by retouch near the distal end of the right edge on the ventral face, the notch could be a preliminary to breaking the blade or could be for use in woodworking. There is a larger area of continuous semi-invasive, semi-abrupt scalar retouch on the distal face at the proximal end and round the proximal end of the right face creating two cutting edges almost at right angles to each other. There is also a small amount of short semi-abrupt retouch at the proxinal end on the ventral face, removing the striking platform. It is 35.9mm long, 21.1mm wide, 3.8mm thick and weighs 3.73 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).
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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