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Description: | A crested blade of great thickness. The chert is coarse grey/ brown flecked and opaque. Flake scars on the dorsal surface are truncated by others from different direcctions and indicate a core at the point of exhaustion with platforms of opportuity being exploited with no futher forward planning. For this removal it was not the end, with on an acutely profiled edge near the proximal end, a line of disimilar flakework; some semi abrupt and one twisted and invasive removal, worked from either side where necessary in order to produce a slightly serrated but unwavering knife edge. This does not look like much later and less competent retouch of material harvested by people unable to work flint from its natural state, but rather the very effective if expedient use of debitage by someone as skilled as the original worker of the difficult chert. Butler(2005) illustrates a crested blade on p.120, fig.47,8.
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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