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Description: | This flake of black nodular Beer flint has secondary cortex. Ripples are visible on the ventral face with a bulb just above the proximal platform. The dorsal face has semi-abrupt retouch and subsequent abrupt retouch to blunt it. The distal end has a step fracture and a broken tip which might have been a piercer tip. Ther eis some gloss on the ridge of the dorsal face.It is made on a black flake of flint with grey cortex. It is possibly Beer flint.Butler (2005) illustates a similar piece on P.128 Fig 52 No 5, which he places in the early 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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