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Description: | A short flake with truncated flake scars on the butt. This is likely a removal from near the striking platform of a small bladelet core. Core tablets like these were removed by skilled flint knappers in the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic to correct the platform angle before removing another set of blades. This flake has a run of possibly blunting retouch on the distal end which makes a handy finger-hold to use the rest of the free blade as a cutting edge. A short length of wear on the sharp distal edge before the retouch might support this idea.The flint is fine and translucent dark brown and may have come from near Beer in Devon; the nearest source of this kind. It was obtained until the Later Neolithic in West Cornwall as redeposited beach pebbles. Bond,2004 illustrates a core tablet on p.120, fig.5.104,76.
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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