Record ID: NLM-5DB1E6
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MODERN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dark blue-black flint with white surface staining, East Coast flint from Glacial Drift. Possibly Debitage as identified by finder; this reporter regards evidence for 'working' as natural damage. Flat ovate fragment of dark flint with chipping all around its edges. The rippling from these chips appears to run inwards from the edge of the object, and probably result from the object rolling in surf. A whitish surface deposit is interrupted by these scars; as this may be salt, this further suggests the object to have been exposed by recent coastal erosion, and the damage to be of recent…
Created on: Monday 13th June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Skipsea', grid reference and parish protected.