Rights Holder: Cambridgeshire County Council
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Unique ID: CAM-546B21
Object type certainty: Certain
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A worked flint flake with some cortex present. This is probably a waste flake from flint working but might possibly have been or was intended to be a flint blade that now has an irregular transverse break travelling diagonally through the thickness of the flint . The fragment now has a roughtly squared shape with the length being only slightly longer than the width. The flake has a length of 19.93, width of 19.57mm, thickness of 5.87mm and weighs 2.96g.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: PALAEOLITHIC
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Quantity: 1
Length: 19.93 mm
Width: 19.57 mm
Thickness: 5.87 mm
Weight: 2.69 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 24th January 2010
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Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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