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Description: | Five scrapers and fragments of scrapers, formed on irregular flakes of medium to pale-medium grey flint, total weight 86.4 grams. The form suggests a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age date, 3500-1500 BC.a. Large thick flake, triangular in section with a high central ridge on the dorsal face, possibly a reused fragment of a core. No clear bulb of percussion, possibly removed by retouch. There are mottled patches at the end opposite the retouch suggesting the cortex has just been removed and a small patch (less than 5% of surface) or cortex near the wide retouched end. The broad retouched end has invasive semi-parallel abrupt retouch, down the sides is short abrupt or semi-abrupt scalar retouch apart from near the retouched end where the sides are hackled and damaged. It is 41.9mm long, 43.2mm wide, 24.9mm thick and weighs 38.1 grams.b. Fragment of a flake, again the bulb of percussion has been removed but here by small breaks and the retouch appears to be at the distal end. The proximal end and left and right edges are all damaged from large chips taken out of the ventral face. There is long, scalar, abrupt to semi-abrupt retouch around the distal end on the dorsal face becoming shorter and less abrupt down the distal ends of the sides apart from a chip from the distal left corner. It is 36.8mm by 29.9mm by 10.2mm thick and weighs 12.0 grams.c. About half of a flake with part of the bulb on the ventral face and evidence for roughly parallel removals on the dorsal face. Brake down the right edge on the ventral face, left on the dorsal. Long scalar abrupt retouch down the right edge and right part of the distal end on the dorsal face, becoming shorter and less abrupt toward the proximal end. 35.1mm long, 30.5mm wide and 10.2mm thick; it weighs 12.6 grams.d. Part of a scraper formed on a flake. The proximal end and bulb of percussion are missing from old breaks. Long semi-parallel abrupt retouch around the distal end and sides becoming semi abrupt in places. There is a small patch of cortex (c.5%) or the edge of a hole in the flint on the dorsal side. 29.6mm long, 41.2mm wide and 8.2mm thick, 14.6 grams.e. Distal end of a larger scraper. The proximal end and the right edge (looked at from the dorsal face) are missing. Around the remainder of the left edge and distal end is long parallel retouch semi-abrupt down the side becoming more abrupt at the end. 18.5mm long, 33.0mm wide and 12.8mm thick, 9.1 grams.
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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