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Description: | Flint knife, almost triangular in plan and lozenge shaped in profile. The distal end is snapped. The lower right edge is retouched. The whole of the right margin could be a cutting edge for use as a knife. The proximal end appears as an abraded break. On the ventral side the bulb of percussion is visible. It is dark to mid grey in tone with tiny flecks.Mercer (1981) illustrates a similar example on page 141, Fig. 62, No. L. 192 which is dated to the Neolithic period.
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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