File:Bronze Age flint scraper (possibly) (FindID 829313).jpg

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Bronze Age flint scraper (possibly)
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Wil Partridge, 2017-02-07 10:10:07
Title
Bronze Age flint scraper (possibly)
Description
English: A Prehistoric flint scraper, tentatively dated to 2500-1500 BC. Sub-rectangular in plan and with a sub trapezoidal cross-section, the ventral face is concave, with the curve running between the proximal and distal ends. The flint has been bifacially worked, on the dorsal face the left mesial edge has roughly worked with short, scalar abrupt retouch, the distal half of the right mesial edge has been more finely worked with short, sub-parallel semi-abrupt retouch, the proximal end of this edge is unworked. The dorsal face has 3 parallel flake removal scars, with the right mesial edge cutting into the third. The ventral face is largely unworked, except for on the left mesial edge which has been roughly knapped with long, scalar semi-abrupt retouch. The flint is a translucent pale brown with white flecks.

Length: 25.1mm, Width: 21.5mm, Thickness: 7.0mm, Weight: 5.59g.

It is interesting to note that this scraper appears to be unfinished. Though tools such as this are not diagnostic of any particular period this flint is tentatively indentified as Late-Neolithic/Early Bronze age due to its being found in reasonably close proximity to a (similarly unfinished) Barbed and Tanged flint arrowhead made of a very similar flint (SOM-34DC37).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Somerset
Date between 2500 BC and 1500 BC
Accession number
FindID: 829313
Old ref: SOM-9985B4
Filename: SOM9985B4.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/600483
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/600483/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/829313
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