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Description: | An end scraper on the snapped distal end of the medial section of a translucent tan brown flint blade.Scraper facet has fine,even retouch and no further signs of use. However the lateral margins of the blade show evidence of use.The right ventral edge has almost microsopic chipping and blunting with very local gloss.Further back from this edge, the ventral surface has diagonal, sub-parallel groups of sharp edged striations.The left ventral margin has three shallow triangular removals as though accidentally pressure flaked by hard work. Turning the piece over confirms this with a line of gloss against the longitudinal dorsal flake ridge; which must have had repetitive contact with worked material.This tool combines an end scraper with a knife on a blade with rather free dorsal ridges and so appears to be in the Neolithic tradition.Butler C.2005 illustrates a combination tool on p.169, fig.71, 7.
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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