flint

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http//www.boards.ie/vbulletin/picture.php?albumid=2075&picture

jimmyarch

can you re-post please, can't see the image!

Maudi

jimmyarch wrote: »

can you re-post please, can't see the image!

its just not doing what its supposed to but il try again

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A dihedral burin?
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jimmyarch

cool! nice little artefact there!

thanks for the image. Its a blade of heavily patinated flint. Its difficult to tell in the photograph whether the piece has edge damage on each side or just very informal retouch, it would help to have a close-up and a photo of the back of the piece.

The proximal end of the blade is still intact and displays a platform preparation scar. It would be good to see the bulb on the back, might tell us the type of hammer used to remove this from the core.

If the proximal end had been removed then I would be tempted to suggest that this is a very in formal backed-blade microlith but the proximal end remains. It's impossible to date as it is not a clear, formal typology but its blade nature and small size suggests that it may be early Mesolithic or early Neolithic but this is guesswork.

Some photos may help, where was it found?

Maudi

jimmyarch wrote: »

cool! nice little artefact there!

thanks for the image. Its a blade of heavily patinated flint. Its difficult to tell in the photograph whether the piece has edge damage on each side or just very informal retouch, it would help to have a close-up and a photo of the back of the piece.

The proximal end of the blade is still intact and displays a platform preparation scar. It would be good to see the bulb on the back, might tell us the type of hammer used to remove this from the core.

If the proximal end had been removed then I would be tempted to suggest that this is a very in formal backed-blade microlith but the proximal end remains. It's impossible to date as it is not a clear, formal typology but its blade nature and small size suggests that it may be early Mesolithic or early Neolithic but this is guesswork.

Some photos may help, where was it found?

thanks jimmyarch for your detailed reply...very interesting to read it..i was struck dumb by it myself when i spotted it lyiing in the dirt...its incredible to think of a man chipping away to make it and thousands of years later i pick it up....humbling...i found it on a construction site in greystones wicklow in a spoilheap away from site..so alas maybe context is gone..anyway im having trouble loading pics but il get at it again...seems to me to have a row (both edges) of serrations??bit like a saw if you know what i mean...

Maudi

http://touch.boards.ie/post/create?id=2056607482&postid=78221949 hi this is the same flint from the [IMG]http://www.boards.ievbulletin/picture.php?albumid=2082&pictu http://photobucket.com/?src=wap re[/IMG]back..orrr not...hmm

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There you go Maudi

Maudi

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There you go Maudi

frig it..thanks again s.t.