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Description: | Flint scraper, triangular in plan and lozenge shaped in profile. The dorsal side is convex with broad flake removal. The distal end is part snapped and part fractured and the proximal end is curve snapped. The left margin is sharp edged with retouch on the lower end. There is abrupt retouch on the lower end and upper edge of the right margin. On the ventral side the left margin has retouch scarring.The flint is mottled mid grey and putty coloured with brown inclusions.Butler (2005) illustrates a similar example on page 184, Fig. 75, No. 5 which is dated to the Neolithic 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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