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Description: | Two microliths formed of small sections of larger blades:Piece 1- on left in photos: Proxinal end of a blade with bulb of percussion and percussion waves. Shallow, invasive, scalar retouch covers the distal face. The distal end has several strikes from the ventral face, possibly in order to break the blade or to neaten the edge. The left (on the dorsal side) edge is very irregular in shape and was possibly embedded into the handle/shaft. It is 19.2mm long, 11.8mm wide and 2.2mm thick; it weighs 0.71 grams.Piece 2 - on right in photos: mid part of a blade with percussion waves. Deliberate breaks down the left edge on the dorsal face with a short unretouched projection at the proximal end. There is a deep, probably accidental notch in the centre of the opposite edge. It is 17.4mm long, 12.7mm wide and 3.3mm thick; it weighs 0.81 grams.Other material in the vicinity includes a core and 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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