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Description: | Early Neolithic or early Bronze Age (c. 2500 to 800BC) hollow scraper: In plan, the knapped flint scraper, is a sub semi-circle and in profile is a thick sub trapezoid. On the dorsal surface, along the distal end and sides there is short, scaled, abrupt, re-touch. The ventral surface has ripples, but the proximal end is missing and this edge has a wide concave edge which has been knapped from the dorsal face. The scraper is knapped from a slightly mottled dark yellow/brown flint. The surface has a slightly waxy texture. The scraper, with the concave edge at the top measures 26.74mm long, 35.1mm wide and 7.73mm thick at the distal end. It weighs 8.65g.The scraper is a probably a hollow scraper which are rare in the early Neolithic, but more common in the later Neolithic to Bronze Age periods, c. 2500 to 800BC.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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