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Description: | Six flint microliths, formed from parts of blades or bladelets with retouch and dating to the Mesolithic period (8300-3500 BC). Total weight: 2.80 grams. Small triangular microlith made from a section of a blade in pale grey flint. Probably the broken tip of a larger piece it has a snap at one end and long, scalar retouch on the dorsal face along the other two sides, which meet in a sharp point. On the left the retouch is abrupt, on the right semi-abrupt. It is 9.7mm long, 4.9mm wide and 2.1mm thick, it weighs 0.10 grams. Long thin piece taken from the side of a blade, possibly part of the bulb of percussion at the ventral end. The right edge on the dorsal face is the natural edge of the blade while the left has short, crossed abrupt, scalar retouch. 23.4mm long, 5.7mm wide and 2.9mm thick, it weighs 0.35 grams Long thin microlith made from a section of a blade. Triangular in plan with two long almost parallel sides meeting at a point at the proximal end and an angled distal end. There is short, scalar, abrupt retouch down all three edges. It is 20.6mm long, 5.6mm wide and 3.1mm thick, it weighs 0.35 grams. Section of a blade with snaps at both ends in medium to dark grey flint with paler mottling. Regular arises from previous blade removals and short, scalar, semi-abrupt retouch along the left edge on the on the dorsal face. It is 14.9mm long, 13.3mm wide and 2.4mm thick; it weighs 0.56 grams. Microlith made on a snapped distal end of a blade, possibly unfinished, in mid grey brown flint with paler mottling. It has about 15% cortex remaining on the dorsal face on the left side at the proximal end. Above this the left edge is angled across to meet the right edge and has short, abrupt, scalar retouch. The proximal end of the right edge is plain, above this, half way up the edge, is a notch created by retouch on the dorsal face, possibly as a preliminary to snapping the unworked proximal end with the cortex from the worked point. The distal end of the right edge is angled in to meet the left and has long, semi abrupt, parallel retouch becoming shorter and more abrupt towards the point. It is 25.1mm long, 11.7mm wide and 4.2mm thick, it weighs 1.01 grams. Fragment of a blade with snaps at both ends. And retouch in pale grey -white flint. The left edge appears complete. The right edge on the dorsal face has been retouched at an angle narrowing the proximal end to a short snapped length. The retouch is short, semi parallel and abrupt at the proximal end becoming semi-abrupt at the distal end. It is 17.9mm long, 10.3mm wide and 2.6mm thick; it weighs 0.45 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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