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Description: | Five pieces of flint debitage of probable Mesolithic to Neolithic date. Four pieces are struck off tertiary flakes and exhibit no cortex. The fifth piece exhibits two small patches of cortex on the dorsal face comprising c. 10% of the surface area of the dorsal face. The cortex indicates that the piece was struck from a pebble rather than from nodular flint. All of the pieces exhibit negative flake scars from previous flake removals on the dorsal face. Four of the pieces exhibit low bulbs of percussion, indicative of soft hammer working. One piece does not exhibit a bulb of percussion due to old breaks at either end. The flakes consist of on piece of yellow flint, three peices of dark grey flint with light grey inclusions and one piece of heavily patinated light grey flint with semi-translucent light brown areas visible where the edge of the flake has been damaged and the patination chipped.Collective weight: 8.90g
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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