Small finds - Late Prehistoric Flint Scraper-Knife from Thetford.

Typical late prehistoric swiss army knife. The bottom edge is sharpened for cutting, and the left-hand convex end blunted over for scraping. Lots of late prehistoric tools were improvised, shapened for uses based on their initial form, and generally 'informal'. Guides on formalised types such as discoidal knives, polished axes, barbed and tanged arrowheads etc, ignore the mass of informality for 'general use' tools in late prehistory.

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