Record ID: DOR-D9ED3E
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An elongate, narrow, sub-oval, bifacially worked flint chisel made on a thick flake or naturally fractured nodule fragment. One face has steep flaking around the entire margin and a central axial zone of chalky cortex remains. The other face has covering, scaled, low angle retouch with an irregular flake pattern, one end is steeply flaked from both sides, producing a sub lozengiform cross-section; the other end is flatter, creating a near plano convex cross section. The 'plano convex' end is blunt; the other end is wedge shaped, formed by an oblique (not tranchet) flake. The tool is c…
Created on: Thursday 16th November 2017
Last updated: Monday 15th January 2018
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Record ID: DOR-349000
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a possible flint chisel. The object appears to be the butt-end of a narrow, elongate bifacially worked tool, probably broken during manufacture. One end rounded, one end rectilinear. Both faces exhibit covering, scaled, semi-abrupt (in places stepped) flaking to form a lozenge shaped cross section. The midline edges are slightly irregular but straight overall, and the butt is irregular in shape. The break is near perpendicular to the long axis and is probably the result of end-shock during manufacture; a second angled facet to the break on one face is noted, co-inciding with a…
Created on: Monday 10th July 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd May 2018
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Record ID: DOR-D3F755
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flaked flint chisel. Grey flint with a thick, off-white matt patina. There is also iron staining over much of the surface, particularly along the ridges. The chisel is long and thin. It is broadly rectangular, tapering only slightly towards the butt. The butt has been snapped off and the flint has re-patinated to a mottled milky white. The chisel has a lentoid profile. It has been extensively flaked along the edges on both faces. The cutting edge is unsharpened and has been formed by the removal of small flakes. Date: Neolithic - c. 3500 - 2100 BC Dimensions: 126 mm x …
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2012
Last updated: Thursday 7th November 2019
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