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Description: | Five prehistoric worked flints recovered from the same area. The flints are Neolithic to early Bronze Age in date.One flint is a scraper on a flake, exhibiting retouch along both lateral edges and the distal end. It measures 31.31 mm long 26.18 mm wide, 10.05 mm thick and weighs 10.1 grams. The flint used is pale to dark grey in colour.A second flake may also have been used as a scraper, and this one also has retouch along both lateral edges and its distal end. It measures 22.95 mm long, 20.95 mm wide, 5.61 mm thick and weighs 2.6 grams. The flint used is a pale brown to grey in colour.There is also a small flake which may also have been utilised as a scraping tool, once again with retouch along both lateral edges and the distal end. This flint has a pronounced ridge running down the centre, making it sub-triangular in section. It measures 20.7 mm long, 12.9 mm wide, 7.5 mm thick and weighs 1.8 grams.One flint may have been used as a blade. It is triangular in plan with retouch along both of its lateral edges, and it is likely to have been used for hacking and slicing. It measures 35.8 mm long, 21.99 mm wide, 9.2 mm thick and weighs 5.9 grams. The flint is a dark grey in colour.The final flint is a broken leafshaped arrowhead and is certainly early Neolithic in date. The tip is missing, although most of the body and the butt remain. A small amount of cortex remains at the proximal end. The arrowhead has been invasively retouched on the dorsal face, whilst the ventral face has had retouch restricted to the edges. The arrowhead measures 22.16 mm long, 24.91 mm wide, 3.91 mm thick and weighs 2.2 grams. The flint used is a pale grey in colour.
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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