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Description: | Flint backed knife, P-shaped in plan, rhomboidal in profile and trapezoidal in section, with unifacial retouch along the whole of the right margin of the dorsal face. A layer of cortex remains along the whole of the left margin of the dorsal face from the proximal to the distal end, which has been deliberately truncated. This layer of cortex creates a natural backing on the left margin for the blade on the opposite right margin, which is curved and slightly serrated like a saw. The proximal end of the dorsal face has two notches which have been deliberately knapped to act as graving tools. There are areas of natural ridges or striations running realtively parallel, but some at slightly oblique angles, along the whole of the ventral face, and some natural fracturing towards the distal end of the dorsal face.The colour of the flint is a mottled light brown to grey, and the colour and texture of the cortex suggests that the flake was derived from a local beach pebble.Bond (2004) illustrates a similar knife on page 147, Fig.5.133, No.F173, which is dated from the Beaker period.Butler (2005) illustrates a similar blade on page 186, Fig.76, No.9, which is dated from the Bronze Age.
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