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Bronze Age scraper
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Somerset County Council, Laura Burnett, 2014-05-06 15:54:49
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Bronze Age scraper
Description
English: Knapped flint side scraper made on a secondary flake. It is broadly triangular in plan with a straight proximal edge, one straight retouched side and one more irregular chipped side. There is a very prominent bulb of percussion on the ventral face with a tiny bulb scar. The scars on the dorsal face show previous removals were small and from at least two points on the same platform. There is a small (less than 5%) patch of cortex at the distal end.

The retouch extends around the right side on the dorsal face. It is short, scalar and abrupt becoming longer towards the distal end where the flake is thicker. The other edge is chipped on both faces.

It is 26.5mm long, 25.6mm wide and 6.6mm thick; it weighs 4.57g. The flint is black, the cortex suggests pebble flint but the quality suggests a downland origin.

The thickness of the flake and large bulb of percussion suggests hard hammer working and the width/length ration suggests Bronze Age date, c. 2350 to 800 BC.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Somerset
Date between 2350 BC and 800 BC
Accession number
FindID: 614815
Old ref: SOM-8E6E07
Filename: SOM-8E6E07.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/467155
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/467155/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/614815
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