Discoidal core

This is a core (a blank for chipping flakes), made of flint of very good quality, judging by the size, from sheet or nodule material (lying as a result of deposition in layers or nodule stones). Judging by the removal negatives on the surface of the core's cleavage front, it was intensively used. Striking platforms were located on several sides of the object, but in total two opposed platforms were used, from which not quite regular chips - flakes - were removed. From these, in turn, a number of tools were created. The backside of this core has undergone almost no processing.
It has a functional purpose: blank for obtaining chips-blanks for tools. It is a common tool of the Middle Paleolithic era in Europe.