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Tiger Rifle
Joined: 29 Mar 2008
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 Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:40 pm |
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While on our tour earlier this month, I picked up a few pieces of flint to bring home to a friend of mine who flint naps.
When I gave him the flint that I brought home, he looked at the piece in the attached photo and told me that I should
keep it as it has been "worked". In looking at it more carefully, it certainly appears that it has.
Any ideas as to what its use may have been or if it was discarded before completion? Is it stone age?
Thank you!
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Pete
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Joined: 20 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:55 pm |
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Hi Tiger Rifle,
Your flint knapping friend is right. This looks like a worked flint scraper. You can see the painstaking work along the leading edge where the flint has had an edge carefully worked probably using a deer antler. It would seem to be Neolithic, that is late Stone Age about 4000-2500 BC
Pete
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