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Description: | Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age date (c.2700 BC to c.1600 BC) probable plano-convex knife: The knapped flint knife is an elongated pointed sub-oval, with a D-shaped cross section. The dorsal surface has scaled retouch covering the surface with low abrupt re-touch along the edges, thereby forming a convex surface. Along one lateral edge, in the medial section there are two notches, next to each other, which have been formed from the dorsal surface. The ventral surface has some invasive retouch, mainly to reduce the bulb of percussion. One portion of the proximal side edge has low abrupt re-touch. The flint is a dark mottled grey-brown colour which along one half is developing a mottled white patina. The knife has been made from a piece of secondary debitage. The knife measures 31.17mm long, 13.13mm wide, 3.38mm thick and weighs 1.7g.Similar examples have been recorded on the PAS database including: WAW-C0CAE9, WMID-F23B97; HESH-BD97A2; SWYOR-B645D2 and SUR-E41676.
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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