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Description: | Dark grey flint of mediocre quality, with browner mottled patches, Core. Irregular fragment of flint, possibly originally from an ovoid nodule, with six or more long parallel flake removal scars on its dorsal side representing soft hammer working from one end at a clear striking platform, probably before this object was detached from the nodule. The relict of the core was perhaps reused as scraper, as one of its curved edges bears short possibly pressure flaked retouch, and the opposite edge is battered. This reuse was possibly by a left-handed person to judge from the position of retouch and the more comfortable seating of object in hand if the reworked edge is to be used. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC.Length: 58.5mm, Width: 37.4mm, Thickness: 17.5mm, Weight: 40.42gms.
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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