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Early Mesolithic flint end scraper
An end-scraper made on a rounded flake of heavily patinated white flint. The scraping edge is steep and the retouch is scalar. The original flake on which the tool is made is hard-hammer struck with a pronounced bulb of percussion. There are traces of cortex on the dorsal surface.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
98.36H/266
Find Information
Site Name: Burry Holms Island, Llangenydd
Grid Reference: SS 3997 9250
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1998 / September
Notes: unstratified From the eroding edge of the sea inlet in the Trench 3 area
Acquisition
Donation, 14/9/1998
Measurements
length / mm:25.8
width / mm:35.2
thickness / mm:10.2
weight / g:12.6
Material
flint
Location
In store
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