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Description: | A burnt blade of altered grey brown and cream opaque, crazed flint. The dorsal surface has converging bladelet scars from the proximal end, possibly from platfoms at a slightly oblique angle to each other. The proximal end is missing and was truncated straight. Though spalled by heat some of an end scraper remains on the break facet. Other parts of the blade; notably the left lateral margin appears to have been double notched after burning and a facet has been ground obliquely just right of the distal end. It may be more recent use of the grinding properties of burnt crazed flint to work other rocks i.e. greenstone. Butler(2005) illustrates a blade on page 115, fig 46, 5.
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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