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Description: | About half of a polished flint chisel in light grey / white patinated flint with some spotty iron staining. The cutting edge is undamaged, finely ground and still sharp. The break is also patinated and shows "bending fracture" characteristics and was probably broken in use (cf. a complete example found in 1989 at Bradenham (HER 25486) and now in Norwich Castle Museum).70 x 25 x 18.5mm. Chisels of this type were in use throughout the Neolithic, c.4000 - c.2350 BC
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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