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MICROLITH
Unique ID: NLM-108783
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Class: obliquely blunted projectile
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 8300 BC
Date to: Circa 3500 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 31.7 mm
Width: 7.5 mm
Thickness: 4.3 mm
Weight: 0.75 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st January 1976
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM11332
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Roxby cum Risby (Civil Parish)
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