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Description: | Large knapped flint blade with retouch down one edge to make a knife, probably a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age knife or sickle. The blade is secondary piece with some cortex remaining at the left distal corner on the dorsal face (c.15% of the dorsal face). It was struck of a prepared platform with a prominent bulb of percussion at the proximal end of the ventral face with a bulb scar and percussion ripples radiating form it. There is sub-parallel shallow retouch down the left edge of the ventral face, longer at the distal end becoming shorter and more scalar towards the centre. A larger removal near the proximal end appears to be later and has removed any retouch at this end. Down the right edge of the dorsal face (the same edge as just described) is long parallel semi-abrupt retouch. Again it becomes scalar in places and ends in the break at the proximal end. There is a further area of long to invasive parallel semi-abrupt retouch or removals in the centre of the left edge on the dorsal face, below the cortex. This appears to be later as it has removed the patination.It is 101.6mm long, 38.8mm wide, 11.8mm thick and weighs 55.32 grams. The flint appears to be dark grey brown under the patination, although the browness may be due to the extent of iron staining. The patination is almost a millimeter thick and stained a bright orange with redder patches.R M A Trevarthen after examining it in person has suggested this is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age sickle or possibly knife similar to an example from Bedfordshire. Drawing by R M A Trevarthen.
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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