Record ID: LIN-BEC7C0 - MESOLITHIC lithic implement

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LITHIC IMPLEMENT

Unique ID: LIN-BEC7C0

Object type certainty: Certain

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Thirty-eight flint scrapers and flakes and tools as per the following list. Also eleven pieces of debitage.

1. Double side scraper; one straight side the other curved. 32x23x7mm 2. Broken neolithic spear point or arrowhead. 27x15x3mm 3. Thumbnail scraper 22x20x6mm 4. Broken scraper (modern break) 31x25x7mm 5. Scraper on primary flake with a flat striking platform 22x22x6mm 6. Side scraper on flake with a flat striking platform 27x28x10mm 7. Thumbnail scraper on flake with cortex. From a primary flake. 21x18x5mm 8. Thumbnail scraper from a flake with a faceted striking platform; no cortex. 18x21x6mm 9. Scraper with a flat striking platform. There is some inverse retouch, probably to protect the finger when using the point of the striking platform as a graver. 23x30x6mm 10. Small flake with a cortex striking platform. 11. Broken tang with a linear striking platform. 23x17x2mm 12. Side scraper with a damaged striking platform. 33x28x8mm 13. Hinge flake as a hollow scraper. 29x26x6mm 14. Hinge flake from a cortexed flake retouched to form a working edge (inverse retouch). 37x29x10mm 15. Flake with a faceted striking platform with three points of percussion worked as a hollow scraper. 25x18x6mm 16. Side scraper with a linear striking platform. No cortex. 32x28x11mm 17. Thumbnail scraper with a flat striking platform and three points of percussion. 26x18x11mm 18. Scraper with slight damage on edge; faceted striking platform. 32x26x8mm 19. Scraper with a faceted striking platform used as a multi-purpose tool. Some inverse retouch. 30x35x6mm 20. Reworked flake 27x29x4mm 21. Graver. 29x15x4mm 22. Scraper. 28x26x11m 23. Crystaline flint debitage 24. Scraper, 80% cortex on dorsal. 25. Broken flake from the Mesolithic, chalky patina 28x10x2mm 26. Broken scraper utilised as a burin 28x18x7mm 27. Scraper with a faceted striking platform, also reworked with inverse retouch. 30x 37x7mm 28. Small flake with triple point of percussion used as a knife. 32x22x7mm 29. Translucent flake with a worked notch. 38x22x3mm 30. Mesolithic blade, chalky patina. 37x13x2mm 31. Broken blade utilised as a possible hafted graver. 30x12x2mm 32. Distal end worked as a flake, broken by thermal weakness then probably used as a perforator. 38x18x15mm 33. Tip of a scraper broken in antiquity. 26x7x5mm 34. Broken flake used as a graver. 29x21x6mm 35. Hinge flake with a cortex striking platform. 30x28x11mm 36. Broken worked flake. 21x20x10mm 37. Mesolithic blade reworked at a later date. 38x4x12mm 38. Flake worked in the Mesolithic tradition. 29x10x3mm

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Period from: MESOLITHIC [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Period to: BRONZE AGE [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: Circa 8000 BC
Date to: Circa 750 BC

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 49

Materials and construction

Primary material: Flint [scope notes | view all attributed records]

Spatial data

Region: East Midlands
County: Lincolnshire
District: North Kesteven
Parish: Osbournby

Restricted 4 Figure grid reference: TF0738
The map has been degraded and provides an approximate location with a degree of random obfuscation.
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Method of discovery: Chance find during metal detecting [scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land [scope notes]

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Recorded by: Adam Daubney - [ view all attributed records]
Identified by: Adam Daubney - [view all attributed records]

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