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DEBITAGE
Unique ID: SOM-781C42
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Three pieces of knapped flint debitage, all tertiary pieces. Colours from patinated opaque medium grey to dark grey-black with mottling. All are struck off prepared platforms with bulbs of percussion on the ventral face and scars on the dorsal face from previous parallel removals off the same platform. One (2) is possibly from a bi-directional core or the tip of the core as it shows removals from either end. One (3) is only the snapped proximal end of a longer blade and the scars on the dorsal face are from narrower, blade like removals. There is no evidence it was snapped deliberately.
In general these pieces vary from more blade like to squatter flakes. In combination with the scraper found at the same time (SOM-78504F) and other material found previously in the same area, a Neolithic - Bronze Age date is suggested, c. 4000-800 BC.
Total weight 6.78 grams.
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 800 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 3
Weight: 6.78 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt 16618
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: South Somerset (District)
To be known as: Misterton CP
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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