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Description: | A flint lithic implement, possibly a scraper, dating to the period c. 10,000 - 1601 BC. The implement is broadly ovular in plan and biconvex in profile. It measures 80.72mm in length, 63.71mm maximum width, c. 34.18mm minimum width and is 25.91mm thick. It weighs 130.41g. The flint is a cloudy mottled blue/grey in colour with pale grey inclusions, it retains no cortex but exhibits small patches of recortication on both surfaces. A small patch (<5%) of quartz crystalisation is visible on one surface. The implement exhibits negative flake scars across the entirety of both surfaces with areas of abrupt and semi-abrupt stepped retouch visible along one mesal edge.
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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