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Description: | A knapped / worked flint blade of Later Mesolithic date, circa 7000 - 4000 BC. The blade is sub rectangular in plan and trapezoidal in cross section. No cortex is present indicating that it is from the tertiary phase of working on the core. The flint is heavily patinated in an opaque, uneven light blue / light grey. Damage to the blade is revealed by unpatinated nicks to the sides and a snapped proximal end probably caused as a result of movement in the plough soil. The damage reveals a mid brown coloured flint. Short, scaled, low angle retouch present along the longitudinal sides and distal end of the blade on the dorsal face. Very faint conchoidal ripples present on the ventral face.Length: 24.80. Width: 10.17mm. Thickness: 2.59mm. Weight: 0.84gA 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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