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Description: | Late Upper Palaeolithic long blade soft hammer struck from an opposed platform core with nine long fluted blade flake scars converging on the dorsal face towards the distal end of this piece suggesting that the core from which it was struck was approximately 200 mm long. It is patinated with a mottled orange, brown and grey with one recent chip to one lateral edge revealing the mid-grey flint this blade was originally made from. There are small areas to both lateral edges that are finely use worn and are patinated.Long blades are an efficient way of producing long sharp cutting implements and are typical of the flint tools produced during the period immediately after the retreat of the ice from the last glaciation. "They are considered to represent the final stage of the Later Upper Palaeolithic, falling on the final Pleistocene/Early Holocene boundary.." (Robins & Wymer 2006.). One other fragment of a long blade has been recovered from the neighbouring parish of Stow Bedon (HER 17320) and is now in the collections of Norwich Castle Museum (NCM 1998.407.15.).120 x 38.5 x 7mm. c.12,000 - c.10,000 BC.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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