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Description: | A fragment from a much larger piece of fine flint of dark brown colour with occasional small white inclusions. Most of the broken sufaces are thermal with ripples from centres inside the stone and some with a glassy spot there. One of these shows a very fine conchoidal pattern. It is reproduced here scaled up 5 times.The right dorsal margin has been broken by percussion, perhaps to fashion the fragment into something useful. The 'distal' dorsal surface shows total invasive retouch with feathered terminations, with perhaps some distal retouch. This looks very much as though it was part of a fine flaked axe, probably the blade end. The invasively flaked surface is heavily glossed from just before the distal end with some glossed dimples or 'comet shaped pits' (Yerkes,R.W.2003. Journal of Archaeological Science 30, p.1051-1066) suggesting prolonged use with grasses or cereals. This post-dates the axe use as patches are also on the thermal surfaces. Like the frost effects there may be a natural explanation but if the fragment was hafted and the tang a little loose then heavy use could have glossed both the chisel-like tip and the tang. Butler(2005) illustrates an axe with similar blade profile and flakework on page 146, fig.61,1.
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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