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Description: | A flint plano-convex knife of late Neolithic date, dating from about 3300 BC - 2200 BC. The flint is a tertiary blade, being opaque and a mottled light grey to honey colour. There is no patination. It is sub-rectangular in plan with a rounded distal end and is plano-convex in section. The ventral face is smooth and concave. There is covering, scaled low angle removals from the dorsal face with short, parallel, semi-abrupt soft hammer retouch to each long edge. It is 45.4mm long x 20.7mm wide x 6.7mm thick. Weight 6.48g.
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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