Small medium brown, hook shaped blade flake with a cutting edge, 2 burin points and a proximal scraping edge. [MLR 16/07/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Small medium brown, hook shaped blade flake with a cutting edge, 2 burin points and a proximal scraping edge. [MLR 16/07/2010]
Long description: Small medium brown, hook shaped blade flake with a cutting edge 2 burin points and a proximal scraping edge. The right lateral edge is convex but shows little to no retouch. The left lateral edge has a feathered termination to form a sharp cutting edge, whose flake removal terminates to a proximal hooked burin point. The proximal edge shows abrupt retouch and there is a distal burin point. [MLR 16/07/2010]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa; Northern Cape Province Orange River Reads Drift
Person: Field collector James Archibald Swan; PRM source James Archibald Swan
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Later Stone Age
Date collected: By 1937
Acquisition information: Donated: 1937
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Flaked, Process Retouched
Dimensions: Length x Width x Height: max 23 x 8 x 3 mm proximal to distal, Weight 1 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1937.42.74

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