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Description: | A worked / knapped flint awl or borer dating to the Later Mesolithic period, circa 7000-4000 BC. The awl is sub square with one side projecting into a rounded point. The cross section is irregular. No cortex is present. The awl was formed on the proximal end of a wide blade from the tertiary phase of the working of the core. The majority of the flint is heavily patinated in an uneven light to mid grey colour. The pointed area of the flint is less patinated, light brown in colour and slightly translucent. Deliberate retouch is present on both sides of the point. On the dorsal face, short scaled low angle retouch is present to one side of the point. On the other side of the point, the retouch is short scaled and crossed abrupt. A hinge fracture is present at the centre of the doral faca indicating that the core has been worked in 2 directions. A well defined bulb of percussion and conchoidal ripples present on the ventral face.Length: 25.81mm. Width: 23.57mm. Thickness: 4.72mm. Weight: 2.49gA 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)
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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