Rights Holder: Birmingham Museums Trust
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Unique ID: WMID-37EED1
Object type certainty: Certain
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A Mesolithic flint blade. There appears to be partial retouch along each lateral edge. The flint is a cream to grey in colour, orange in places. It measures 28.28 mm long, 12.9 mm wide, 3.83 mm thick and weighs 1.2 grams. It is sub-triangular in section.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 8300 BC
Date to: Circa 4500 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 28.28 mm
Width: 12.9 mm
Thickness: 3.83 mm
Weight: 1.2 g
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 5th December 2009
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Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SO7049
Four figure Latitude: 52.138475
Four figure longitude: -2.439753
1:25K map: SO7049
1:10K map: SO74NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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