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Description: | Grey flint lithic implement. Flake with broad flakes trimmed from its dorsal side and almost flat on the ventral. Angled scalar retouch executed from the dorsal aspect defined a point projecting from one side. Misty patches of patina developed over these struck surfaces, more thickly on the ventral which may suggest a hiatus between the removal of flake from its core and subsequent working. The opposite end to the boring point was subsequently trimmed, as evidenced by the loss of patina, by angled scalar and short abrupt retouch executed from the dorsal side. This may have attended further retouch to remodel the point. The object was thereafter probably deposited in a sealed context inhibiting the development of patina over the sites of this later working. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2350 BC.Length: 36.5mm, Width: 28.5mm, Thickness: 9.9mm, Weight: 11.11gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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