Description

Summary: A short end scraper, from Marden Henge, Marden, Wiltshire, excavated by G J Wainwright, 1969.

Research results

A flint end scraper excavated from the late Neolithic enclosure at Marden henge, Marden, Wiltshire, in 1969. The scraper has been examined microscopically for evidence of use wear, the surviving worked edge is relatively blunt and exhibits the heavy wear typical of secondary hide working, to make the material more supple.

This and 5 other worked flint artefacts from Marden Henge have been examined under a microscope by Dr Ben Chan of the University of Southampton in order to assess the suitablility of the wider assemblage for use-wear analysis. Marden henge is set upon greensand geology, rather than chalk, reducing the post-depositional changes which obscure such detail on the flint of most Wessex henge monuments.