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Description: | A complete knapped lithic implement of late Bronze Age date, circa 1000 - 800BC. The implement is a crude scraper formed from a hard hammered secondary flake which is sub-ovate with a D-shaped section. Both surfaces are irregular with numerous smaller flakes having been removed. A patch of cortex remains on the dorsal surface around what appears to be a pot lid fracture. Extensive abrupt short, sub-parallel retouch is present along the distal edge and into either side to form the rough scraping edge. The flint is a mid-grey colour with patches of a lighter chalky inclusion and some iron staining. The implement is 52.1mm long, 41.2mm wide, 12.3mm thick and weighs 32.6g.Scrapers are fairly ubiquitous throughout prehistory and are generally less chronologically distinctive than other artefact types. They had many different functions as they were very useful tools and were employed, for example, for skinning animals, removing the fatty deposit from hinds and much more.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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