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Description: | A small, knapped flint side scraper, formed from a piece of tertiary debitage - i.e. waste from tool making with no remaining exterior cortex. Probably mid-Neolithic (around 3000BC - 2500BC). The flint has multiple flake facets on the dorsal face and on the edge adjacent to the point of percussion ... [ different directions...] [retouch - direct percussion only flaked on one side]The flint is a cream-grey mottled colour, with iron-staining from the soil in its burial environment. This scraper was made from flint derived from a glacial / riverine environment, which would have been carried downstream by river (the findspot area has no naturally occurring flint).
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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