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Description: | Flint knife, sub-rectangular in plan, plano-convex in profile and triangular in section, with a central medial ridge. The original blade has been rolled in the sea so that it is water-worn, and then retouched after this event, as the scars on the margins of the blade cut through the earlier worn surface. The butt end has gone but the piece is well made (Alison Roberts pers comm). The knife is retouched on all margins of the dorsal face, but mainly on the lower halves of the left and right margins of the ventral face, towards the proximal end, probably for hafting. The bulb of percussion has been removed at the proximal end , which tapers to a rounded terminal. This distal end has been worked from the ventral face to a slight notch in the centre.The flint is a mixture of mottled light grey and cream colours, which suggests that it might have been derived from local beach flint. The length to breadth ratio is 3:1 which is appropriate for a knife or blade.Bond (2004) illustrates a fabricator and a knife with similar features on pages 143 & 147, Figs.5.129 & 5.133, Nos.F147, & F174, which are dated from the Later Neolithic period.
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