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Description: | Flint flake, ovoid in plan and rod shaped in profile. The dorsal side has an off centre mesial ridge with surface fracturing near the proximal end. The distal end is snapped and the proximal end spalled. The left margin has sharp low angle retouch and the right margin fine serration. The ventral side has had some light flake removal near the lower right margin. It also has a curved undulating surface.The flint is mottled mid and pale grey in colour with a tertiary cortex.Mercer (1981) illustrates a similar example on page 143, Fig. 63, No. L. 197 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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