Flint flake with parallel sides and flake scars, possible ?blade flake. Proximal end missing. Slight light grey patina on the ventral face. [MN 05/02/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Flint flake with parallel sides and flake scars, possible ?blade flake. Proximal end missing. Slight light grey patina on the ventral face. [MN 05/02/2010]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Suffolk near Lakenheath
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source George Fabian Lawrence
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Upper Palaeolithic
Date collected: By 1897
Acquisition information: Donated: 1897
Materials and processes: Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Depth: max 4 mm, Width: max 13 mm, Length: max 46 mm, Weight 5 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1897.11.70
Research and responses: Flower refers to Lakenheath in his publication "Flower, J.W. 1869. ‘On some recent discoveries of flint implements of the Drift of Norfolk and Suffolk, with observations on the theories accounting for their distribution.’ Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. 25:449-460" which may be relevant [CB 8/12/2009]
Dr Joshua Pollard (University of Bristol) examined 1897.11.43 - .85 (flints from Lakenheath) on the 2/02/2010, and thought them probably to be Upper Palaeolithic rather than Neolithic. [AS 04/02/2010]
Dr Alison Roberts (Ashmolean Museum) examined 1897.11.43 - .85 on the 21/05/2010 and confirmed that they are final Upper Palaeolithic. [MN 24/05/2010]

Search terms: Tool, Flake, Blade Flake, Debitage

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