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SCRAPER (TOOL)
Unique ID: DOR-36F7B2
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A large flint composite tool (knife/scraper). Bi-facially worked on a possibly natural flake of off-white flint with occasional grey-brown patches. It has a matt patina. Sub-oval in shape, the distal end has been flaked at to form a large scraper. On the other face of the flake there have been several invasive transverse flake removals to thin and shape the flake, perhaps to make a knife. There are no clear indicators that the original flake was struck, although this evidence may have been removed by the transverse flaking. A composite tool of uncertain function. There is some edge damage and much of one surface has been frost pitted. Date: possibly Late Neolithic, but more probably Early Bronze Age Dimensions: 75 mm x 52 mm x 17 mm Weight: 62 g
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: 2500 BC
Date to: 1500 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 75 mm
Width: 52 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight: 62 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 21st August 2008
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: West Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Tolpuddle (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SY7994
Four figure Latitude: 50.745221
Four figure longitude: -2.299005
1:25K map: SY7994
1:10K map: SY74SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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