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Description: | Flint flake, triangular in plan and lozenge shaped in profile. On the dorsal side the right margin is serrated with a notch. On the left margin there is a notch near the distal tip and the lower left margin is angle snapped. On the proximal end there is a curve fracture. The ventral side has a fractured upper right margin with adjacent damage. The lower half of the flint's surface is covered by cortex.The flint is mink coloured and part semi translucent and part opaque. The secondary cortex is cream toned.Butler (2005) illustrates a similar example on page 115, Fig. 46, No. 1 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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