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Description: | Chert struck flake, sub-rectangular and lozenge-shaped in profile and section, with a an abraded area of cortex running from the proximal end towards the distal end, and from the medial ridge to the right margin on the dorsal face. The left margin has been worked into a blade and the distal end has been a dull point, with a curved, recessed edge on the right margin, that could have been used as a graver. The ventral face is battered, but unworked, and the bulb of percussion survives at the proximal end.The flake is an orange-brown colour and has been derived from Upper Greensand chert, probably from Devon (Dr Roger Taylor pers comm).Bond (2004) illustrates as similar example of a broad chert flake with an awl-like point, perhaps derived from the Cretaceous Greensand chert beds in North-east Devon, on page 24, Fig.2.26, and a knife with one blunted edge on page 135, Fig.5.121, No.F54, and two blade flakes on page 137, Fig.5.124, Nos, F24-25, which are all dated to the earlier Neolithic.
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