Accession No
1927.1710
Description
Fragment of large flint knife. Curved in shape with two finely retouched edges and a small area of cortex in the middle of one face and broken at one end. Probably part of a larger crescent shaped tool of the bug type.
Place
Europe; Eastern Europe; Ukraine; Ivano-Frankovsk; Nezvis’ko [Niezwiska]
Period
Late Neolithic Chalcolithic
Source
Hutchinson, Richard W. [excavator]; Preston, Jocelyn P. [excavator]; Kozłowski, Leon [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1927.1710
Cultural Affliation
Material
Flint
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
Part of crescent shaped knife of flint, transparent grey patina. Characteristic Bug type
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Found on the Lower Dniester site. Joint excavation by Richard W. Hutchinson, Jocelyn Preston for the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Leon Kozłowski for the University of Lviv [Lwów] in 1926. See archive (LL1/7/1) for correspondence, notes, etc.
Event Date 1926
Author: maa
Context (References)
Hutchinson, R.W. and Preston, J.P. (1930). ‘Excavations at Niezwiska, Poland’. Liverpool Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology, vol. 17. pp. 19–26.
Event Date 1930
Author: Aedan Jones
Description (Physical description)
Fragment of large flint knife. Curved in shape with two finely retouched edges and a small area of cortex in the middle of one face and broken at one end. Probably part of a larger crescent shaped tool of the bug type.
Event Date 5/4/2024
Author: Aedan Jones
FM:49047
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