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Upper Palaeolithic flint blade
Possible Upper Palaeolithic flint blade. Note in bag reads: "Usk flint. Flint blade with heavily abraded edges (could be frost-heaving or trampling etc.) with ochreous staining characteristic of flints from river gravels. Not diagnostic typologically but plausibly Upper Palaeolithic. S A-G [Stephen Aldhouse-Green] 14-01-1994".
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
82.10H/53.44
Find Information
Site Name: Usk Detention Centre, Usk
Grid Reference: SO 3775 0049
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1967
Acquisition
Donation, 2/3/1982
Measurements
length / mm:47.7
width / mm:18.8
thickness / mm:5.7
weight / g:5
Material
flint
Location
In store
Categories
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