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Description: | A scraper small enough to be called micro if Mesolithic. The fairly circular flake has a diagonal strip of pebble cortex with nearly parallel flake scars on either side as though this is the last core detacment before it is ready for working all the way around a platform. On the left margin there is a straight line of tiny semi-abrupt retouch, met by another straight edge of similar edgework continuing on the ventral side. The opposite margin is notched with semi-abrupt retouch on the ventral surface. The subjective 'soapy feel' of the flint is augmented by the pinkish tinge of the cortex and may be due to Mesolithic heat-treatment of pebbles before producing blades.Butler(2005) illustrates a small scraper with retouch visible from the ventral side on page 107, fig.43, 10.
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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