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Bronze Age flint scraper
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Edward Caswell, 2020-05-27 11:26:59
Title
Bronze Age flint scraper
Description
English: A single flint scraper of possible Bronze Age date c. 2400-800 BC.

The scraper is worked from a tertiary flake of medium brown grey flint whose surfaces has a white patch and occasional white inclusions.  It has a glossy patina.The flake is an irregular pentagon in shape with a flat striking platform, one long straight side (on the left as seen from the dorsal side) and three more irregular angled edges. One of these angled edges has short, sub-parallel, semi-abrupt retouch along its length up to a break in the edge on the ventral surface. The dorsal surface also has five earlier negative flake removal scars. Four are struck from 10 o'clock if viewing the dorsal surface  struck in same direction as the scraper while the last may have been struck from the same direction as this flake. The dorsal surface retains a medium sized but clear bulb of percussion from which clear conchoidal ripples emanate.

The scraper is 30.6mm long, 30.0mm wide, 5.6mm thick and weighs 4.56 grams.

Scraper are used throughout prehistory. This example shows multi-directional working which may indicate it is Bronze Age in date however it has also been found close to debitage more characteristic of Mesolithic and Neolithic assemblage (OXON-7B5F86) such that an earlier date should not be excluded.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Oxfordshire
Date between 2400 BC and 800 BC
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FindIdentifier: 995295
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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/1105343
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1105343/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/995295
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 13 November 2020)
Object location51° 43′ 35.76″ N, 1° 05′ 19″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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