Product Description
c.4000-3000 B.C. An excellent Neolithic flint Awl / Borer found Near Happisburgh (Hazeboro), Norfolk and from an old Norfolk collection. Expertly fashioned from a thin flake of mottled black / brown coloured flint with a very nicely defined functional Awl / Boring tip. This scarce tool would have been gripped by the wide main body and the point used to piece holes in animal hides for stitching or for rotating back and forth in the hand to bore holes in wood, bone or antler items. Totally intact and an excellent example of the type, 59mm at widest x 50mm deep to tip x 10mm at thickest,
