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Description: | This piece from a light grey flint with brown inclusions is shaped like the continent of Africa with the Cape at its proximal end. The ventral face has a damaged bulb and some short abrupt retouch to create a small notch in the lower left margin, which is roughened or serrated above and below it. The dorsal face ha sa hollowed motch on the right shoulder and on the medial left margin. The left shoulder has been flaked to a sharp edge. The whole piece is somewhat abraded.The flint is light grey to brown in colour. It has only tertiary cortex and is of unknown origin, but it is probably from a local beach pebble.Butler illustrates similar pieces on Page 131 Fig 55 No 8 which he dates to 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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