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Description: | Flint end-and-side scraper, semi-circular in plan and profile and lozenge-shaped in section, with unifacial retouch from the proximal end along the right margin of the dorsal face. The distal end has been snapped off, perhaps broken, and the left margin and more than half of the dorsal face are still covered with a layer of cortex. The flake is thin and the angle of retouch at the proximal end is shallow and not abrupt, so this tool may have been a blade that was damaged and then reworked into a scraper at the original hafted proximal end.The colour of the flint is a translucent dark brown, and the colour and fine texture of the cortex, suggests that the flake was derived from nodular flint and is therefore not local.Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 141, Fig.5.127, No.6, which is dated from the Later Neolithic period.Butler (2005) illustrates a similar example on page 166, Fig.70, No.11, which is dated from the Later Neolithic period.
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