Product Description
Early Neolithic c.5,000-3,000 B.C. A pleasant and well worked Neolithic flint Awl / Borer found many years back in the Avon Valley, Fordingbridge, Hampshire and from a Hampshire Geologists collection. Expertly fashioned from a pleasant mottled dark & light grey flint with a thick main body / handle and a finely worked and well defined pointed awl / borer point. This nice little tool would have been used for boring holes in wood, or through animal hides to form stitch holes. Intact with a most attractive surface ageing and a shiny old patination, an appealing example of the type, 70mm long x 28mm wide x 25mm thick