Har Karkom HK86b 'Surrey-style' Flints - (m) globular triangular

Comment: Globular geometric, perhaps representation of female ('goddess')?

Photo © James Harrod

Submitted Comments.
5/2000 Ursel Benekendorff suggests that this piece is a truly beautiful bird sculpture, as well as a female and a geometric. To see the bird it needs to be rotated 90 degrees clockwise. The triangular bit of cortex is its cap, the two white dots are its eyes, and the pointed tip with a thin piece of cortex is its tail. There appears be a second tiny bird with beak facing left in the yellowish inclusion or cortex (at base of current orientation, or on the front of the bird image in the clockwise rotation). The portrait face--see also slide (k)--is at the base right in the orientation shown.
OriginsNet responds: This is a brilliant interpretation. (The combination bird and female motifs, would make it analogous to the later Neolithic 'bird goddess' symbolism described by Marija Gimbutas.)