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CORE
Unique ID: NMS-24AA68
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Small core, hard hammer flake scars removed from just over half of the natural platform offered by a small thermally fractured piece of flint (pot lid), all removals are quite small and are limited by the size of the core: - now patinated white with pale buff coarse inclusions and spotty iron stains.
Neolithic, 4,000 to 2,350 BC.
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 2351 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 54 mm
Width: 43 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight: 48 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 25th March 2010 - Thursday 25th March 2010
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 54018
Other reference: INDAR20/01/2018JG
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: Breckland (District)
Parish or ward: Kempstone (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF8815
Four figure Latitude: 52.70002444
Four figure longitude: 0.78088134
1:25K map: TF8815
1:10K map: TF81NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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