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Description: | A complete Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age flint sickle (c. 2700 BC-c. 1601 BC).This implement is sub-triangular in plan and roughly pointed-oval in cross-section. It has a convex outer edge, a straight inner edge and tapering ends. Both faces have been retouched around the edges and the removals are largely short, parallel and sub-parallel and low angled. The angle on both faces of the straight cutting edge are slightly lower than the angles on the convex edge. The retouch on the dorsal face has more removals than the ventral face. An area of buff cortex is present on the dorsal face and a bulb of percussion, now almost absent, is situated at the apex of the outer edge on the ventral face.The sickle is reddish grey on the dorsal face and grey with pale off white mottling on the ventral face. There is use-gloss on both faces of the cutting edge.Length: 55.4mm; width: 37.9mm; thickness: 10.1mm. Weight: 22.12g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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