- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Misdirected burin flake.
- Long description
- Burin flake made from a flaked piece of creamy-grey stone. One of two specimens from the French Upper Palaeolithic which illustrate the "turning-in" of a burin struck flake that occasionally occurs. When this happens the burin flake turns inward, and cuts across the flake that was intended to form the burin. See 1948.10.55 for a specimen of the main flake that has been cut across.
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Upper Palaeolithic
- Date collected
- By 1948
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1948
- Dimensions
- Length: max 47 mm, Width: max 21 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1948.10.54
1948.10.54
Misdirected burin flake.
1948.10.54
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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