Originally posted by 2ndoldman
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Hopefully the additional photos in my posts above will have covered the brown coloured flint point; which I think is a technology called Châtelperronian which was common in France around 40 thousand years ago; but is rare in Britain as for most the period were covered in ice.
The much younger grey flint point (which may be late Mesolithic/early Neolithic) has very fine retouch down both sides of the point and some around the notch (which you have circled). At the time this was made they had not yet developed/adopted intrusive pressure flake techniques. Retouch was confined to the very edges.
The tip of the point is gone; one might imagine through being fired. The soil this came from is a slope that is sandy and is being ploughed for the first time; having historically been kept as pasture. For that reason I don't see any plough damage :0)
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