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RETOUCHED FLAKE
Unique ID: NMS-9D0067
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Four struck flakes, one is a simple flake tool.
The three struck flakes are hard hammer struck, all are secondary with patches of cortex extant to the dorsal faces, all are of pale grey flint with darker and lighter inclusions within the flint, none are retouched though the thinner edges are recently damaged.
- Hinged termination to the flake, 54.5 x 33.5 x 12.5 mm. 24g.
- 57 x 33.5 x 12 mm. 18 g.
- 52 x 42 x 8 mm. 16 g.
The last flake is secondary, soft hammer struck and very flat in profile, of very similar colour to the others, a patch of cortex remains to the distal end on the dorsal face, this is interrupted by a steeply retouched, semi-circular notch to one side c. 15 mm diameter and may have been used for scraping the bark off tree shoots/straight thin branches used to produce arrow shafts or similar.
Given the general area was used for the extraction and production of flint to make axes, these flakes are likely to be 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: 4
Weight: 77 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st October 2019 - Thursday 31st October 2019
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 65741
Other reference: INDMW27012019JG
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: South Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Kirby Bedon (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TG2707
Four figure Latitude: 52.61330164
Four figure longitude: 1.35157894
1:25K map: TG2707
1:10K map: TG20NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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