Flint Flakes Tour - Flint Flake in exposed soils
Another flint flake - this one with a mild blue patination caught in the light. Sometimes I find old patinated struck flints which have been apparently been reused following patination - the flake has been struck from a core, later it must have laid in the top soil for some years, to build up a patina even on the ventral surface, then following patination, someone finds it, picks it up, and retouches it to use it for example, as a scraper - the retouched areas showing up as unpatinated. I wonder what they thought? They almost certainly knew that it had been turned and fashioned by someone before. Did it have special meaning - a link to ancestors maybe?
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