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Description: | Two pieces of flint debitage of Mesolithic or Neolithic date. Both are high quality flint, one dark grey with paler mottling, one light grey and translucent. The light grey piece is a blade with snaps both ends, not clearly deliberate, one appears to be across a natural flaw int he flint. It is a tertiary piece with aris and ripples on the dorsal face suggesting repeat parallel blade removals from the core. It is 1.87 grams.The other is a large secondary flake from the base of a core with a break at the proximal end which has removed the bulb of percussion and c.50% of the dorsal face and 20% of the ventral covered in thick cortex. Again aris and ripples on the dorsal face suggest repeat parallel removals form the same platform. It is 10.12 grams.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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