Neolithic 'Ovate' Flake
Flint, 33.73 grams, 64.00 mm. Circa 3,000 BC. A fine well shaped flake, showing a strong bulb of percussion and bulber scar. Reference: Howarth, E. Catalogue of the Bateman Collection in the Sheffield Public Museum, 1899. Provenance: findspot unknown but believed to be from southern England. A very good example exhibiting all the characteristics of the fundamental flint flake.