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Description: | A borer on the proximal end of a thin hinged flake. The flint is grey and brown mottled with cream fleck inclusions. Dorsal flake scars are running from opposite directions, suggesting that this flake was removed from an opposed platform core.The lateral margins converge to the proximal end and have semi abrupt retouch visible from the ventral side. The bulb of percussion is present but the butt is reflaked and abraded.Towards the distal end of both dorsal and ventral surfaces there are patches of gloss. This may be associated with combination tool use; such as using the distal margins as a knife and the small amount of retouch on the hinge as an end scraper, but this retouch and the gloss pattern may make more sense as to do with hafting the borer bit and that there was some free movement in the attachment, allowing the gloss to develop.Butler,C.2005 illustrates a borer on page 129,fig.54,2.
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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