File:Bronze Age flint scraper (FindID 859941).jpg

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Bronze Age flint scraper
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Somerset County Council, Wil Partridge, 2017-10-02 13:48:13
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Bronze Age flint scraper
Description
English: An incomplete Late Neolithic to early Bronze Age flint scraper, probably dating to c. 3000-1000 BC. A tertiary flake of brown/beige flint mottled with paler areas and with one ferrous inclusion visible in a break (see below). The flake has natural breaks on two sides, with the proximal end and left edge both lost. The curvature of the ventral face would suggest that near to the flakes original length survivives. All along the curve of the surviving worked edge exhibits retouch (short, sub-parallel/stepped in places, semi-abrupt) on the dorsal face, all struck from the ventral, which is unworked, although it does exhibit the distal end of a fairly diffuse bulb of percussion.

Dimensions: length 30.0mm; width 18.2mm; thickness 9.0mm; weight 5.88g.

Although fragmentary, the nature of the retouch would suggest a Neolithic or Bronze Age date, with other material in the same assembage suggesting a date at the later end of this range.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Devon
Date between 3000 BC and 1000 BC
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FindID: 859941
Old ref: DEV-8630A9
Filename: DEV8630A9.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/631760
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/631760/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/859941
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