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RETOUCHED FLAKE
Unique ID: PUBLIC-C41DBF
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A flint tool fabricated from a secondary, struck blade of dark brown flint. There is a small bulb of percussion at the proximal end of the blade, with ripples of percussion across the ventral face. The dorsal face has two small areas of cortex remaining and has scars where three previous blades have been removed. The blade has been worked along both long edges and around the the distal end using short, sub-parallel, semi-abrupt retouch to create scraping edges. This tool probably dates to the Neolithic period.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 2200 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 38.17 mm
Width: 17.19 mm
Thickness: 6.11 mm
Weight: 4.7 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 14th September 2014
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Utterby
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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