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Description: | A worked / knapped flint scraper of Early to Middle Neolithic date, circa 4000 - 2700 BC. The scraper is broadly semi-circular in plan and lentoid in cross section. No cortex is present indicating that the scraper was made from tertiary debitage. No surface patina. The flint is finely grained and opaque with an even dark brown colour. Short, scaled, semi-abrupt retouch present to one edge of the dorsal face. The opposing long edge of the dorsal face has a U-shaped knotch with possible abrupt retouch. The proximal end has been trimmed with direct, abrupt retouch applied from the dorsal side. A bulb of percussion and conchoidal ripples present on the ventral face.Length: 32.87mm. Width: 20.62mm. Thickness: 5.96mm. Weight: 4.43g.A preliminary interpretation of the flints, prior to recording, by P Reavil is that the assemblage is indicative of a site used sporadically / periodically in the later Mesolithic period and more intensively in the Neolithic with the core use of the site being between Early - Middle Neolithic 4,000 BC - 2750 BC. With sporadic use in Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age. (pers. comm. P. Reavil, March 2014)
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