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Description: | Neolithic knapped flint tertiary blade retouched into an end scraper, 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 visible on the ventral face. On the dorsal face are regular parallel aris left by similar blade removals from the same platform. There is retouch is around the distal end. The retouch is short, semi-parallel and semi-abrupt. There is some chipping down each side. The flint is light orangey brown in colour with darker mottling. It is 55.5mm long, 28.6mm wide and 9.3mm thick.
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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