Crossword-Solution: PATINATED 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Over the door hung an inn-sign, and into the space where once the sign had swung was now inserted a lantern, in which was ensconced, well hidden from view by its patinated glass sides, an electric light.

Everywhere around are innumerable flint chips and perfect weapons, burnt black and patinated by ages of sunlight.

From the desert plateau and slopes west of Thebes.] In the smaller illustration we see some remarkable types: two scrapers or knives with strongly marked “bulb of percussion” (the spot where the flint-knapper struck and from which the flakes flew off), a very regular _coup-de-poing_ which looks almost like a large arrowhead, and on the right a much weathered and patinated scraper which must be of immemorial age.

Flint implements might thus be expected to remain in many localities for indefinite periods, but they would certainly become more or less ‘patinated,’ pitted on the surface, and rounded at the angles after long exposure to heat, cold, and blown sand.” This is exactly the case of the Palæolithic flint tools from the desert plateau.

Stem side edges are straight; the basal edge of the stem is usually excurvate but may be straight and may exhibit some of the patinated rind of the parent material from which the point was made.