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Description: | Flint flake used as piercer, awl or borer. Looking from the dorsal face it is serrated on the right hand margin by retouching. There is a notch on the left hand margin with signs of use showing as gloss as viewed from the ventral face. Viewed from the ventral face the ripples from the bulb of percussion at the proximal end are clearly visible. There are no signs of burning nor of breaks or having been abraded. The flint is good quality and is dark grey in colour and was likely derived from a local beach pebble.Butler [2005] illustrates a similar example on page 169, Fig 71, No.2, which is dated from the later Neolithic period.
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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