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Description: | A complete, Stone Age struck or knapped, small/medium size worked flint, blade or possible burin/piercing tool. A crescent or flat 'D' shape with distinctive point at the distal end. Speckled grey colour with small striking platform, shallow bulb of percussion and small bulbar scar, ripples of percussion and cortex down one side of the dorsal surface which has three blade beds. There is a notched area just short of the point with secondary working from the dorsal surface. The flint has an attractive glossy patina and has fairly sharp edges with little wear. This lithic is likely to date to the Neolithic or Bronze Age. Ref. Detector Finds 5, Gordon Bailey, Greenlight Publishing 2002, page 9-15 fig. 3 or fig. 7 and Prehistoric Flink Work, Chris Butler, History Press Reprinted 2011, page 36 no. 9 & 10 & page 52 no. 6. This lithic measures 33.7mm long, 15.7mm wide, 6.1mm thick and weighs 2.8g.
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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