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Description: | This is a backed knife made on a dark grey flint with brown flecks; its secondary cortex suggests its origin as a beach pebble. This fan shaped piece has 3 flakes removed from its dorsal face to leave a flattened left of medial ridge. To its right the rounded margin ha sa sharp edge. which has been "nibbled" from the ventral face. The area to its left has 2 step fractures at the distal end and another to remove a tiny flake along the proximal to the central margin. This creates a comfortable hold for the thumb of a left handed person or the index finger of a right handed user. The shoulder above this has abrupt retouch to blunt the edge. On the ventral face the bulb is clearly visible and there is secondary cortex at the proximal end.Bond (2004) illustrates a similar piece on P 143, Fig 5.129, No F151, which he places in the later Neolithic.
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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