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Description: | A wide and thin soft hammer struck flake of translucent brown flint. The dorsal surface has parallel flake and blade scars with platform preparation scars at the proximal end. There is a thin patch of nodular cortex on the right distal margin. Nodular flint was often imported from as far as Devon in the Later Neolithic to this far West locality but it was occurring occasionally in The Mesolithic as in this case. This flake has removed much of the flaked face from a core and might be called a flanc de nucleus. It has been harvested from a flint scatter and the distal edge semi-abruptly retouched through the blue/cream patination in a later period.Butler(2005) illustrates a similar core rejuvenation flake on page 87, fig 31, 9.
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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