Fieldwalking find

Found 14/03/2004

Mesolithic bladelet from Thames Valley (near Reading, Berkshire)

This bifaced blade about 2cm long is 1cm wide and just a quarter centimetre deep. Dotted region on right (upper illustration) is original outer surface of nodule (the cortex). In colour, the whole piece it is a semi-translucent creamy flint with a milky patina. The bulb of percussion (showing where the flake was struck of a larger piece of flint) is on the left.

It was found on the surface of a ploughed field on a sunny morning following 2 days of rain that had washed the surface stones clean, making worked flints easy to find. This was just one of 15 good mesolithic and bronze age worked flints I found that morning.

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