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Description: | Flint discoidal knife, circular in plan, and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. The knife has bifacial retouch, after taking off larger flakes at a shallow angle on both the dorsal and ventral face to flatten the piece and to remove the bulb of percussion on at the proximal end of the ventral face. The entire cirumference of the circular margin has also been retouched on both faces so that the whole edge could have been used by hand to cut material in a rotating motion. One side has not been backed for hafting where the flint would have been slotted into a wooden or antler handle. The invasive retouch on the entire margin of the dorsal face rises up to meet the edge of the slightly recessed platform caused by a large intermediary flake having been removed. The invasive retouch on the ventral face also surrounds the large central flake removal in a horseshoe shape.The flint is a light grey in colour, with some iron staining from the context that it has been in, and was probably derived from local flint and from its size, probably a large nodule mined from the local chalk during the Neolithic period.Bond (2004) illustrates discoidal knives on pages 143 & 145, figs.5.129 & 5.131, nos.F152 & 20, which are dated from the Later Neolithic to the Beaker period.Butler (2005) illustrates a similar discoidal knife on page 171, fig.72, nos.1 & 4, which are dated from the Later Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age.Burrow (2003) illustrates similar circular discoidal knives from Craig-y-Bwlch and Lluest-wen Reservoir in Wales on pages 91-92, figs.46-47, nos.1 & 1, which are dated from the later Neolithic period.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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