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Description: | Greensand chert tool with snapped tip at distal end and truncated at proximal to form a truncated blade. Retouch along left hand margin has formed a serrated edge and retouch has formed a notch at lower right hand margin. It may have originally been a piercer/awl then later retouching at the break end. No signs of burning or heating.Chert of an amber, light brown colour.Butler [2005] illustrates an example on page 169, fig.71, No. 2 which is dated to the later Neolithic.
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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