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Description: | Large knapped flint blade of Neolithic date, c.4000-2100 BC. The blade has been struck off a prepared platform with part of the platform on the proximal end and bulb of percussion and percussion ripples remaining on the ventral face. A large chip has been removed from the distal end of the ventral face. On the dorsal face are regular parallel arises left by similar blade removals form the same platform. There are extensive chips down both edges, mostly on the dorsal side. Possibly from use as something like a side scraper. The flint is mid-grey with some patches of paler grey mottling. It is 58.3mm by 21.6mm and 7.8mm thick; it weighs 14.57 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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