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Description: | A core worked on a nodule of cream patinated flint showing as dark brown from some recent chipping in the ploughed soil. The core has been worked from 2 platforms at an acute angle to each other and might be called a keeled core. If the flakes had been removed all around the edge it might have been called a discoidal core. As it has been worked alternately from both sides of one mostly straight edge it could even be called a chopper core; suggesting a tool use. One face is dominated by a final very large flake removal; truncating the flake scars on that side. The other side shows platform preparation for this removal with 3 equal bold scars in a line to produce a prominence. These scars have had their (negative) bulbs of percussion removed by the flake removal and hence left a facetted butt on that final flake. This shows that at least the final flake was a Levallois technique removal and perhaps the whole core preparation was leading up to this flake. Although chopper and Levallois technique is ancient and may be Lower Paleolithic and better known in the Middle Paleolithic, it re-occurs in the Neolithic and is reported in Kent ( Google: Late Neolithic Levallois core from All Saints Avenue, Margate) where flint is plentiful for a relatively wasteful technique. Nearby to this findspot (Tags: Hoath, TQ7965), flintwork is dominantly Mesolithic to Bronze Age and this degree of patination is usual on fairly recent flintwork on chalk downland.
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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