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Description: | A microlith worked trasversely from a blade of translucent brown flint. Although the snap appears simple it has been well controlled successfully twice without the notching of the microburin technique to make a short wedge of flint with two opposing blunt sides and a sharp free blade on the others. Minimal semi-abrupt retouch on the corners and shorter of these sharp edges defines this as where it was hafted. It may have had another tool use but looks like the simplest type of micro-tranchet arrowhead.This site is good for microliths and this particular spot for micro-tranchets. This slope was likely the edge of wetlands in Mesolithic times.Chris Butler in 'Prehistoric Flintwork' illustrates a similar example on page 93, fig. 35, 30 as a Clark type D although his has blunting retouch on the truncations.Our knapper got the size and shape right straight away. The examples at Clodgy Moor and those seen at Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter are very small. In Britain this is a sign of Later rather than Earlier Mesolithic date but may also reflect small available pebble resources.
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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