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Description: | This microlith has a blunted back from abrupt retouch from both faces. The sharp right margin has notches which may be from use wear. Both proximal and distal points are sharp, the distal point showing signs of use wear. This may be described as a backed bladelet point.The flint is translucent smokey brown in colour. It has only tertiary cortex, so its origin is uncertain, but it is likely to be from a local beach pebble.Berridge 1986 illustrates a similar piece on Page 14 Fig 4 No 10 and which he calls a straight backed piercer and places in the later Mesolithic.
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