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Description: | A large and broad blade of patinated cream flint with mid grey inclusions. The blade may have been punched from the core. The butt has been steeply abraded and struck from the base of this, next to a small triangular facet of the platform. The proximal end is therefore small and quite pointed. The dorsal surface carries large parallel blade scars to an oblique distal facet through which the blade has plunged.The left margin has been finely retouched on the dorsal surface from distal to mesal and this continues invasively on the ventral surface in the manner of bruised blades. The right margin is serrated with semi-abrupt retouch and between this and a notch near the distal end is some more ventral invasive retouch.Alison Roberts (pers comm) suggests that this is a Neolithic blade.Mercer (1981) illustrates a similar example from Carn Brea on page 131, Fig. 57, No.L116, which dates from 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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