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Description: | Flint flake, quadrilateral in plan and lozenge shaped in profile. The dorsal side has a convex surface with four parallel mesial ridges. Both the distal and proximal ends are broken. The left margin is serrated and the right denticulated. Part of the lower right margin is snapped. On the ventral side the distal end is hinge fractured. The right margin has either retouched scarring or fine serration. There is also some gloss on the right margin. There are visible conchoidal ripples.The flint is mottled brown grey in colouring with tertiary cortex.Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 113, Fig. 5.97, No. L. 29 which is dated to the Mesolithic 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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