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Description: | Flint scraper, almost kite shaped in plan and lozenge shaped in profile. The dorsal side has a convex surface with smooth conchoidal ripples on the right of a curved mesial ridge; the surface of the left side of the ridge is fractured. The right margin is serrated and the left abraded. The proximal end is broken. The ventral side has a flat surface with large shallow flake removals. Conchoidal ripples emanate up from the proximal end.The flint is matt dark grey in appearance.Mercer (1981) illustrates a similar example on page 135, Fig. 59, No. L. 149 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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