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Neolithic flint discoidal knife
A white very heavily patinated discoidal flint knife of slightly irregular oval shape. The irregularities occur towards the proximal bulb. The tool has been flaked in a shallow, invasive manner around 80% of the flake's circumference. Some of the flake arretes are also polished out.
Flint discoidal knife, 3000 BCE. Polished around the edges to make a sharp cutting blade. From the Gower peninsula, west Wales.
SC6.1
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
68.86/1
Find Information
Site Name: Tooth Cave, Ilston
Grid Reference: 30 - 61m
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1960s
Notes: found in chamber I
Acquisition
Donation, 14/3/1968
Measurements
length / mm:73
width / mm:56.9
thickness / mm:13.8
weight / g:57.2
Material
flint
Location
St Fagans Gweithdy gallery : Knapping/Making Stone Axes
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