Crescent shaped medium brown flake with a cutting edge, a scraping edge and a distal burin point. [MLR 09/07/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Crescent shaped medium brown flake with a cutting edge, a scraping edge and a distal burin point. [MLR 09/07/2010]
Long description: Medium sized, crescent shaped medium brown flake with a band of light brownish yellow along the right lateral edge. The right lateral edge is retouched for scraping and there is a blade edge on the left lateral edge. The distal end is pointed to form a burin and the ventral surface has a bulb of percussion. The flake is from a prepared blade core as evidenced from parallel negative flake scars on the dorsal surface. [MLR 09/07/2010]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa; Northern Cape Province Pixley ka Seme District Siyathemba Koegas
Person: Field collector James Archibald Swan; PRM source James Archibald Swan
Date
Date collected: By 1937
Acquisition information: Donated: 1937
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Flaked, Process Retouched
Dimensions: Length x Width x Height: max 35 x 11 x 3 mm, Weight 1 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1937.42.33

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