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KNIFE
Unique ID: SOM-D38D21
Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Flint implement, or perhaps a by-product of implement production. The object is long and thin and has been created on a secondary flake; smooth light orange-brown cortex remains on the left side of the dorsal face. There appears to be deliberately worked serrations to the upper right edge of the dorsal face, suggesting that the object may have been used as a knife or saw. However, halfway down this edge is a notch, rather like those created during microlith production. This is unlikely to have been the cause, however, as the object is covered with a milky patina that is missing on the notch, the creation of which has exposed the blue-grey flint below. Probably this is the result of later damage caused when in the soil, rather than evidence of later reuse. I is probably of Meolithic to early Neolithic date. Length: 45.56mm, Width: 13.86mm, Thickness: 4.66mm, Weight: 2.2g
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 8300 BC
Date to: Circa 2900 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 45.56 mm
Width: 13.86 mm
Thickness: 4.66 mm
Weight: 2.2 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 7th October 2009
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Entry 020506
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Uncertain
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: Mendip (District)
To be known as: St Cuthbert Out
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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