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Description: | The cortex, which is stained red from printer's ink due to storage, makes a safe backing on the proximal long margin opposite to the two shoulders of the distal long margin which fall away from the sharp point or tip. The tip has been retouched on alternate sides to create an awl. The should ers have been nibbled to create a knife edge. Ripples are visible on the ventral face and there is a central dorsal ridge from the distal point to the proximal end.The flint is light brown with dark brown inclusions and the secondary cortex suggests a nodular origin.Butler 2005 illustrates a similar piece on Page 129 Fig 54 No 1, which he calls a backed awl and 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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