borer

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Summary: 3 piercing / boring tools produced on flint waste flakes, each has a cutting or scraping edge and is worked into a point at one end, one also has 3 'notches' worked into the end opposite the point, all appear to be mult-purpose tools, from Golden Ball Hill, Alton, Wiltshire, near the Mesolithic excavation site, part of the H.G.O. Kendall Collection.

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