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Description: | Knapped flint side and end scraper made on a secondary flake. It is broadly oval in plan with straight ends and convex sides. There is a prominent bulb of percussion on the ventral face with bulb scars, and the flake has been removed from a prepared platform a section of which remains at the proximal end. It is triangular in section with an aris running down the centre of the dorsal face. There is a patch of cortex at the distal end covering c. 5% of the face. The scars on the dorsal face suggest previous parallel removals form the same platform.The retouch is on the dorsal face and extends around the distal end and two thirds of the way down one side. It is short, scalar and semi-abrupt down the side and probably long, sub-parallel and abrupt on the distal end. The distal end is battered from damage or use which has removed the lower edge (closer to the ventral face). There are occasional chips around the edges on both faces.It is 32.8mm long, 23.2mm wide and 8.6mm thick; it weighs 6.52g. The flint is pale grey-buff.The thickness of the flake and large bulb of percussion suggests hard hammer working and a later Neolithic or Bronze Age date, c. 3,300 to 800 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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