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This long flint pick comes from Pit Burial 416 at the Buthiers-Boulancourt site. The deceased was a man who had undergone an forearm amputation. The pick was found positioned at a right angle above the amputated arm. It has an oval to rhomboid cross-section, and both ends, as well as certain parts of its surface, have been polished. Analysis of wear marks shows that it was used very little; polishing marks are still visible across the entire object. This type of tool, generally small in size (approximately 100 mm long) and of fairly crude workmanship, appeared in northwestern Europe at the end of the Blicquy-Villeneuve-Saint-Germain period and became common around 4500 BCE.