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Description: | A complete Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age flint end-scraper (2500 BC-1500 BC).The scraper is manufactured on a secondary flake and is battered at the proximal end. The dorsal face has three major flake scars and about 40% of the surface area is covered by cortex.At the distal end it has been worked to form a cutting edge and the removals are semi-abrupt, short and sub-parallel. The ventral face has a bulb of percussion with associated ripples.The knapped areas are light to mid-grey and the cortex is buff.48.86 x 36.00 x 12.96mm.Weight: 25.96g.See Butler 2005: 166, fig. 70.
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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