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Description: | A flint thumb nail scraper of late-Neolithic to early-Bronze Age date (c.2500-c.1500 BC). The scraper is knapped from Lincolnshire flint, which is mottled grey-buff in colour with small lighter patches across both faces. The flint is opaque and there are a couple of patches of iron staining on the dorsal face. The scraper is sub-circular in plan and broadly lozengeform in section. There is long, scaled, semi-abrupt retouch along the distal, left and right edges of the dorsal face. There is no retouch on the ventral face.Overall the scraper measures 32.5mm long, 30.6mm wide and 8.6mm thick. It weighs 9.08g.
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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