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Description: | A small, sub-circular, flint, thumbnail scraper. The scraper has been made from a tertiary flake of dark brown flint. There is a flat striking platform and a clear bulb of percussion at the proximal end of the flake, with ripples of percussion across the ventral face. The dorsal face has no remaining cortex. The scraper has been abruptly and steeply pressure flaked around it's entire edge.These types of thumbnail scrapers date to the Early Bronze Age.
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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