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Neolithic knife
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Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Katie Hinds, 2009-03-09 16:20:01
Title
Neolithic knife
Description
English: A Neolithic flint possible sickle, measuring 138.07x41.71x15.49mm and weighing 83.81g.

One long edge is straight while the other is curving. The curved edge has low angle retouch with pressure flaking at the edge. It has polish/ gloss on both faces of the knife at the edge. Both faces of the implement have had retouch, especially towards the curved edge, although one has had rather more work than the other. The straight edge has no retouch.

The flint is grey in colour with some lighter grey patches.

Mike Trevarthen comments 'This could be classed as a Neolithic sickle - there is a similar unpublished example from a pit at the western end of the Poundbury development, where it was associated with Early Neolithic pottery forms. This is described as a possible unfinished single piece sickle. Wessex Archaeology 2007, Land to the North of Poundbury farm, Poundbury, Dorset: Archaeological Evaluation Report. Unpublished report, reference 60021.02.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Wiltshire
Date between 3500 BC and 2100 BC
Accession number
FindID: 248792
Old ref: WILT-FCE913
Filename: Firth0309knife.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/204138
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/204138/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/248792
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Object location51° 03′ 16.2″ N, 2° 01′ 26.87″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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