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Description: | A large and fairly crude flint scraper, roughly sub-circular in form, created on a secondary flake (cortex remains in places). The object is quite thin and flat. The ventral face is concave apart from the raised bulb, whilst the dorsal face is very slightly convex (though fairly flat in the centre where two large flakes have been removed), leading to a slight curve when viewed from the side. The small butt and very prominent bulb on the ventral face suggest that it was produced using the hard hammer method. Furthermore, the faceted and battered platform seem to point to a fairly low level of skill. As the rest of the object survives in fairly good condition, this damage does seem to stem from the production stage rather than following deposition (though there is a small amount of rolling and chipping to some edges that does appear to be more recent). Despite this, however, there is fairly fine short, semi-abrupt to abrupt, sub-parallel retouch along the left edge of the dorsal face, from the proximal end to about halfway along. This is then followed by cruder short, abrupt, sub-parallel retouch along the curved edge of the distal end. The large, crude nature of the scraper may perhaps point to a Bronze Age date, when knapping skill levels were generally declining. However, the fairly fine retouch means that we cannot rule out an earlier Neolithic date, so it is likely to date from c.3500-800BC. The scraper survives in fairly good condition. The flint is mid grey-brown in colour, with a few lighter patches of cortex on both sides and a slightly milky patina.Length: 51.30mm, Width: 45.54mm, Thickness: 10.00mm, Weight: 25.74mm
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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