Flake Scraper - Michelsberg culture / Middle Neolithic – Spiennes, Belgium (#7)

Period: Michelsberg culture - Middle Neolithic

Object: Flake Scraper retouched

Material: Flint

Age: circa 5500 years old

Discovery area: Mons / Spiennes - Belgium

Condition: Very good. No restoration, no modern damage. See pictures

Last collection: Belgian old collection

Inscribed in 2000 on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the site of the Neolithic flint mines at Spiennes was discovered in the mid-19th century (Briart et al., 1868; Collet, 2012a). It is an emblematic site of the mining phenomenon which developed from the end of the 5th millennium to the end of the 3rd millennium BC. Spiennes turns out to be the central site of the “Mons Basin mining complex” (Collin, 2016, 2019).

This beautiful bicolour flint tool was extract from a nucleus.

At this time, two techniques for detaching the blades seem to be used: indirect percussion and lever pressure.

Afterwards, its edges were finely retouched.

Dimensions: 72 x 57 x 11 mm

Weight: 50 g

Divestment from my private collection

Bought legally from old collections or during public auctions

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