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Description: | A knapped flint blade with possible microlith removal, probably dating to the Mesolithic period, c. 10,000-4001 BC. The blade consists of a platform of percussion and visible bulb of percussion on the proximal ventral face, followed by traces of ripples of percussion on the ventral face. The dorsal face has a strong central rib. It does not seem that the mesial edges have been retouched and the distal end terminates in a large chert inclusion. There is a strange possible removal on the right mesial edge of the dorsal face which is long and thin and may represent the removal of a fragment of flint for a microlith. The flint is of a light grey colour and the chert inclusion mentioned above has a chalky buff-coloured appearance similar to what the cortex may have looked like.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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