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Description: | An end scraper on the thin end of a wedge shaped fragment of pebble flint with the cortex on the thick end.The colour of the flint is striking , with a richly mottled brown andgrey with a ribbon of blood red highlighting the working edge.The only retouch is semi invasive and forms a hollow scraper. The scars are glossy and this is because the flint has been altered by fire.It seems that the original flint had brown 'ribbons' like some other flint worked locally. The dorsal surface has in part spalled away leaving a depression which makes a convienient finger hold.This tool is one of three so far recovered from this locality which combine hollow end scraper with finger or thumb hold in a spalled fire altered waste flint fragment.Although flint was scavenged for re-use as informal tools into The Iron Age the similarity of these tools on Neolithic waste suggests that they were exploiting a surface scatter that they were deliberately burning with knowledge about the characteristics of altered flint i.e. ease of producing longer flakes,impressive reddish colours and handy pit fingerholds. Butler, C.2005 illustrates a hollow scraper on p.128, fig.52, 6.
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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