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Description: | Proximal end of a knapped flint blade or flake. Tertiary piece struck of a prepared platform with bulb of percussion and ripples on the ventral face and arises from parallel removals on the dorsal face. The right edge (seen from the dorsal face) is chipped all the way around, probably from use and appears to have been shaped with some possibly very short semi-abrupt scalar retouch at the distal end. There is a retouched notch at the distal end on the left corner (as seen from the dorsal face). The distal end does not appear to be snapped although this may be obscured by the notch and retouch. The flint is mid grey and translucent with paler opaque weathered patches. It is 31.8mm by 28.0mm and 4.9mm thick; it weighs 5.39 grams.While the blade is not dateable on it's own the high proportion of relatively wide blades found in the same area may suggest a Neolithic date for the assemblage. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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