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Description: | A flint scraper tool dating from the early Neolithic period (3500 BC-2900 BC). It is sub circular in plan and D shaped in profile and section. The dorsal face has been worked; with abrupt retouch along the distal end and sides. This would have constituted the scraping end of the object; the proximal end is natural. The flint is a dark grey; it has some mottled creamy white patination seen primarily from the ventral side. Please see Edmonds' Stone Tools and Society, page 40, figure 19 for examples.Length: 31.4mm; Width: 32.1mm; Thickness: 13.5mm; Weight: 15.87g
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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