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Description: | A lithic implement of uncertain use, likely dating to the Mesolithic, c. 9000-4000 BC. The object is irregular sub-rectangular in plan with a possibly pointed butt and is roughly D-shaped in cross-section particularly bulbous around the middle of the object. The object has been intentionally shaped and is not a worked flake. Object has been highly flaked but with a patch of cortex in the middle of bottom face of the object. There is transverse flake creating an edge at the wide end of the top facing, this technique is generally associated with the tranchet axe industries of the Mesolithic. The conchoidal flaking is mostly fairly muted suggesting the use of soft hammer technology, there are some patches of more pronounced fracturing which might indicate the use of both techniques in its production. The pointed end of the object has some limited sub-parallel semi-abrupt retouch, which has not patinated suggesting a period of reuse after the majority of the object had patinated.The object is mostly patinated and a mottled light blue-white colour, where not patinated the flint can seen to be translucent mid grey-brown, the cortex is a light.Measurements: 72.93mm long, 32.22mm wide, 25.77mm thick and 59.84g in weight.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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