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Description: | A probable Palaeolithic to Neolithic (400,000 to 2200 BC) debitage: flake. The flake has been removed from a larger implement/core which had a heavily patinated, and is a mottled bright brown-orange surface due to iron staining. A trace of this patination is visible along a lateral edge. The dorsal and ventral surfaces are only slightly patinated with a mottled yellow-brown colour, suggesting it has been produced through re-use. The ventral surface has a bulb of percussion with feint conchoidal ripples. The dorsal surface has a large negative scar. The flake measures 27.79mm length, 41.1mm width, is 6.1mm thick and weighs 6.03 grams.The object is a flake which appears to be knapped from a Palaeolithic implement or debitage. When it was knapped from this is not known, but in prehistory, possibly the later Palaeolithic or 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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