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Description: | Flint chisel arrowhead (or edge trimmed flake), triangular in plan and lozenge shaped in profile. The dorsal side has been unifacially retouched. The left end of the distal edge has blunt retouch and the right end low angle long retouch. The right margin has semi abrupt retouch. The proximal end is abraded. The left margin has low angle retouch. The ventral side has low angle retouch on the upper left distal tip. The left margin has broken retouch and the right margin retouch scarring. The proximal end has a bulb of percussion.The flint is semi translucent dark grey in colouring.Butler (2005) illustrates a similar example on page 159, Fig. 66, No. 1 which is dated to the Neolithic period.This flint could also be an edge trimmed flake - see Mercer (1981) Fig. 55, No. L. 94 which is also 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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