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Description: | Eight knapped flint blade segments of Mesolithic or early Neolithic date. Four proximal ends, three middle sections and one distal end. The segments have a mix of straight and more irregular breaks, some at least of which are probably deliberate. Two are tertiary pieces, the rest secondary, none have more than twenty percent cortex coverage and most less than 10%. Two of the proximal ends are struck off the cortex and two off prepared platforms. Several have regular parallel arises on the dorsal face suggesting they were struck off cores used to produce multiple blades. The flint ranges from very pale buff to mid grey with most being mid grey with paler mottling. The cortex is thick on the remaining areas suggesting some at least may be downland rather than pebble flint. They are relatively wide, the narrowest is 14.3mm, the next narrowest 17.5mm and the wisest 23.6mm wide. They weigh 18.19 grams.
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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