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Description: | Light to smoky dark brown. Cortex has been left on both faces.
Fragment of an almond or crescent shaped tool, probably a knife. H. O. Forbes has described the group of tools 712 C-Z as "knife-like instruments for killing & flaying animals, scraping hides, and general cutting & piercing purposes". The tool has been broken and one half is missing.
The tool has been worked from both faces. The working edge runs around the entire tool and is rather sharp. The edge has been worked from both faces.
Item has been categorised with a Predynastic Period production date, but the note relating to this group of tools says:-
'Opinions as to date:
Forbes - XIIth Dynasty, some possibly IVth Dynasty: but possibly also some much later than XIIth.
Petrie - Prehistoric'
Material: Stone
Material: Flint | Source: | Manchester Museum | Identifier: | mm.emu.ecatalogue.humanities.526529 | Go to resource |
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