File:Bronze Age to Iron age flint scraper (FindID 887726).jpg

English: A Later Prehistoric flint scraper, probably of Later Bronze Age or Iron Age date, c. 1600-1 BC. A large sub-piriform secondary flake of mottled grey-brown flint, broadly sub-trapezoidal in cross section and retaining a layer of thin, sandy cortex on c. 20% of its dorsal face. A striking platform survives at the proximal end, with a large but unscarred bulb of percussion. A number of negative removal scars are present on the dorsal face, struck from at least four directions; the most prominent being a very large hinged removal struck from 45 degrees to the striking platform. The flake has been worked bifacially, with limited abrupt, short, scalar retouch to the left mesal edge at the proximal end. Similar, low angle, retouch extends around much of the ventral edge.

Dimensions: Length 70.7mm; width 52.1mm; thickness 20.4mm; weight 74.69g.

It is impossible to date a single, undiagnostic flake with confidence, however, the probable use of a hard hammer, multi-directional removals, large size and general crudeness of the flake would suggest a later Bronze Age or Iron Age date, on balance, the earlier end of this range may be more likely.