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Description: | A flint thumbnail scraper of probable Beaker period date (2400 - 2200 BC). This flint is a short and broad tool, following the late Neolithic transition from altering blades, to using more chunky pieces of flint with abrupt retouch. The flint is grey in colour with areas of partial white patination and a sandy brown inclusion towards the distal end of the dorsal face. It is a tertiary flint, oval in plan and sub-rectangular in section. There is short, sub-parallel, semi-abrupt hard hammer retouch on all sides of the dorsal face. The flint is 19.8mm long x 16mm wide x 5.6mm thick and weighs 2.2g.
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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