File:A Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age flint tool fragment possibly originally a knife. (FindID 957743).jpg
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edit| A Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age flint tool fragment possibly originally a knife. | |||
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Edward Caswell, 2019-07-05 09:10:08 |
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A Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age flint tool fragment possibly originally a knife. |
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English: A Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age flint tool fragment possibly originally a knife.
The tool is made from a of tertiary flake of flint. The flint is a light brownish grey colour with a medium grey colour closer to its centre which has off-white patches and inclusions. It has a semi-glossy patina. The tool has a convex dorsal surface but mostly flat ventral surface. The tool is approximately trapezoidal in plan with a curved long edge. Its distal end is a short flat edge that has been snapped truncating the tool. The remaining edges have long scaled semi-abrupt turning to low angled retouch as it progresses into the body of the artefact. a semi-circular notch is near the break in the implement although it is not clear wether this was intentional or not. The bulb of percussion has been lost to retotuch at the tip of the object however, shallow conchoidal ripples are visible. The tool measures 29.8mm in length, 21.3mm in width, 4.8mm in thickness and weighs 3.66g. Due to their incomplete nature it is not possible to be certain about the complete tool. The shape of the tool is similar to a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age knife which often have curved blade edges. This artefact is part of a larger assemblage of other flint artefacts that has been found at the spot indicated. Those flints and chert pieces which can be dated appear to date from the Neolithic (starting c. 4000 BC), due to the presence of several end scrapers and the evidence of wide blade production, to the early Bronze Age (ending c.1600 BC), due to the presence of multi-platform working and thumbnail scrapers. However, it is not inconceivable that some of these flints may also date from the Mesolithic period as some pieces of debitage show narrow blade technology. Similarly scrapers have a wide period of use dating as late as even the Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age the flints from these periods typically being coarse as some of the debitage found. The region has also had several other flints that cannot be confirmed as having been worked in the area which may indicate natural flint or liming. |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Somerset | ||
| Date | between 4000 BC and 1600 BC | ||
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FindIdentifier: 957743 |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/1064092 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1064092/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/957743 |
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