Record ID: HAMP-E214D4
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic or early Bronze Age single-piece sickle. Manufactured from a large flake with bifacial retouch covering both surfaces. The manufacture process of flaking has removed the bulb of percussion from the sickle. There is invasive retouch on both lateral edges of the sickle giving it two curved edges. The outer convex edge is thicker than the inner cutting edge. The sickle may have been hafted, with the thicker edge fitting into a curved wooden handle. Both ends of the sickle are broken, but they would have been worked to a point. There is a slight gloss along thinner cutting e…
Created on: Friday 17th November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.