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LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Unique ID: SF-7DACE5
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A patinated and re-used lithic implement of Upper Palaolithic or later date. One face has a patination that is dark red to orange/brown in colour with extensive flake removal. At a later date the object appears to have been re-used resulting in the opposite face being removed and revealing the unpatinated dark grey flint at the core of the object, with relatively neat edge retouch along one side and some possibly flake removal at one end (distal end?). The entire object measures 119.85mm in length, 93.68mm in width, 30.31mm in thickness and 406g in weight.
The patination on the original flint flake suggests a date range in the Upper Palaeolithic (c.40,000-10,000 BC). The subsequent edge retouch and removal of one face to reveal an unpatinated surface is indicative of later re-use, probably in the later Prehistoric period (c.4000-800 BC), although precisely when this may have been remains uncertain.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
Period from: PALAEOLITHIC
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 40000 BC
Date to: Circa 801 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 119.85 mm
Width: 93.68 mm
Thickness: 30.31 mm
Weight: 406 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st June 2013
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Suffolk Coastal (District)
To be known as: Great Glemham
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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