Record ID: LIN-6D7732 - MESOLITHIC lithic implement

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Lithic implement

Unique ID: LIN-6D7732

Object type certainty: Certain

29 flint tools.

1. Thumbnail scraper. Blue patina and reworked at a later date. 2. Scraper, starting to recorticate 3. Perforator on a thermal break 4. Kinfe. Blue patina worked at a later date 5. Side scraper. No cortex or patina 6. Blade, broken in antiquity. possibly Mesolithic or earlier? 7. Hinge flake, possibly reused as a knife. 8. Flake, or possibly a transverse arrowhead. Small amount of retouch at a later date. 9. Worn out denticulate 10. Thumbnail scraper. Cortex on dorsal surface. Flat striking platform. 11. Side scraper 12. Broken scraper 13. Knife on flake. Linear striking platform. Recent break. 14. Leaf point 15. Flake 16. Probable core? 17. Scraper. broken along a fault plain. 18. Thumbnail scraper. Dual purpose with a graver. 19. Broken flake. Distal end reworked as a thumbnail. Break fashioned as a graver 20. Knife from chocolate coloured flint. 21. Thermal flake worked into a round scraper 22. Scraper with some damage 23. Mesolithic flake, flat striking platform, used as a graver 24. Large horseshoe scraper from the centre of a good nodule 25. Round scraper 26. Old flake with blue patina reworked at a later date into an end scraper. Flint interior is black. 27. Side scraper 28. Knife worked on proximal end. Black flint, flat striking platform. 29. Possible hammer stone.

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: 29

Materials and construction

Primary material: Flint [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked [scope notes | view all attributed records]

Spatial data

Region: East Midlands
County: Lincolnshire
District: North Kesteven
To be known as: Threekingham

Method of discovery: Metal detector [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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