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Description: | Flint knife, roughly ovoid in plan and lozenge shaped in profile. On the dorsal side the left and right margins have coarsely serrated. The right margin has a sharper cutting edge. The left end of the proximal edge is snapped and the right end is damaged or abraded. On the ventral side the proximal end is damaged.The flint is pale grey cream in colour and has a secondary cortex of light orange tones.Mercer (1981) illustrates a similar example on page 141, Fig. 62, No. L192 which is dated to 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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