Rights Holder: The Portable Antiquities Scheme
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Unique ID: IOW-5539A2
Object type certainty: Certain
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A complete late Neolithic to early Bronze Age flint plano-convex knife (2700 BC-1601 BC).
This implement is brown and shiny with a reddish hue and is semi-translucent around the edges. The dorsal face is mainly covered with semi-abrupt and low angled parallel retouch. The arrises are sharp and there is a notch at one side. The ventral face is flat and does not have a bulb of percussion. There are a few parallel flake scars.
Length: 44.8mm; width: 29.0mm; thickness: 11.6mm. Weight: 21.16g.
Similar examples are illustrated in Bond, C, J, 2004, 'Guide to the Identification, Assessment and Recording of Lithics Version 1', pages 58 & 208, fig. 5.30. Bond describes this type of artefact as 'a knife made on a thin flake blank, plano-convex in section, with sharp edges and ovoid in outline. Scale-flaking on most if not all the total dorsal surface is common.'
This is a find of note and has been designated: County / local importance
Current location of find: Finder
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Exactly 2700 BC
Date to: Exactly 1601 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 44.8 mm
Width: 29 mm
Thickness: 11.6 mm
Weight: 21.16 g
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 25th March 2015 - Wednesday 25th March 2015
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Other reference: IOW2015-2-390
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Bond, C. | 2005 | PAS Guide to the Identification, Assessment and Recording of Lithics | London | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | 58 & 208, fig. 5.30 |