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LITHIC IMPLEMENT

Unique ID: SF-A05FA2

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

scraper of oval form, or possibly an end-scraper, which has been snapped. It is 43mm long, 40mm wide, and 10.5mm thick at the thickest part. The scraper is roughly circular, the underside formed by a single smooth break, and the upper side also showing one upper flaked surface, which slopes upwards (i.e. the implement becomes thicker) towards the working edge. This edge is steeply set, with many small flakes removed. Some of these, on the fore-edge and on the right side, have broken through the original medium blue-grey patination which covers most of the tool and show more recent edge damage. It is therefore possible that the tool has had two separate phases of use, once at the original time of making,when the first edge-trimming flakes were removed, and then a second time much later when the patination had formed and the edge was re-sharpened by secondary flaking. The break, which has removed the bulb of percussion from the lower side, shows unpatinated black flint along the fracture edge. The implement is probably Mesolithic or Neolithic.

Evidence of reuse: secondary edge-working removes patina

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 8300 BC
Date to: Circa 2100 BC
Period of reuse: UNKNOWN

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 43 mm
Width: 40 mm
Thickness: 10.5 mm
Weight: 23.65 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st December 2004

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: finders reference: 6

Materials and construction

Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: Eastern (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: St. Edmundsbury (District)
To be known as: Ixworth

Spatial coordinates

Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Character undetermined

References cited

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Recording Institution: SF
Created: 19 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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