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Description: | Description by Nicholas Thomas:This is a utilized chert flake..The dorsal face has flake scars all over, cortexed at the right edge. There is slight retouch along the upper left edge at the distal end to provide a straight edge.The ventral face is not scarred. The left edge is cortexed. Overall it an edge trimmed flake.The flint is mottled pale grey with darker bands in colour with white cortex. It is probably derived from a local beach pebble but this is uncertain with only tertiary cortex.Mercer (1981) illustrates a similar piece on Page 129 Fig 56 Nos L95 which he calls an edge trimmed flake and dates to the Neolithic.
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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