Flint Flakes Tour - Flint waste core in Furrow

Not a flake this time, but the left over waste core from the production of flakes. What is left of a flat crowned striking platform can be seen on top. I expect that the knapper, some 3,800 to 7,000 years ago, simply dropped it somewhere around here, when they decided that it was spent.

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