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Middle Palaeolithic flint levallois blade
Levallois blade. Very heavily water rolled with damage to both lengths. The flake scars are heavily rounded.
Flint blade found on the Severn Crossing construction site. This flint tool was used for butchery about 100,000 years ago.
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Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
94.45H/39
Find Information
Site Name: Severn Crossing, Monmouthshire
Date: 1991
Notes: from archaeological work in the intertidal zone carried out in 1991 by S. Godbold for CADW in advance of construction work for the Second Severn Crossing
Acquisition
Donation, 2/11/1994
Measurements
length / mm:96.5
width / mm:28.5
thickness / mm:11.1
weight / g:36.0
Material
flint
Location
St Fagans Gweithdy gallery : Knapping/Making Stone Axes
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