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DEBITAGE
Unique ID: SOM-03A905
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
One piece of knapped flint debitage. A small tertiary chip taken off a larger core. Prominent bulb of percussion on the ventral face. The dorsal face shows evidence for multiple parallel blade removes, some in the same direction as the chip but starting further up the core, others at c. 120 degrees suggesting a multi-platform core. It appears accidental. Mid-grey mottled flint, 1.25 grams.
It is difficult to estimate the age of a single piece of debitage but the suggestion of muti-directional working may suggest a Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 1000 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.25 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt 16611
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: South Somerset (District)
Parish or ward: Tatworth and Forton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST3407
Four figure Latitude: 50.85872805
Four figure longitude: -2.93908382
1:25K map: ST3407
1:10K map: ST30NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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