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CHOPPER
Unique ID: WAW-EC5E20
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A possible Upper Palaeolithic flint chopper / tool, possibly dating to between 40, 000 BC and 10, 000 BC.
The find consists of a sub oval piece of a light brown flint nodule. It has been formed from either a flake of a large nodule or from the nodule itself. The flint tool has been damaged by movement in the soil due to plough roll and as such is badly abraded.
There is a small amount of evidence of direct percussion (conchoidal ripples) to the distal edge, to potentially form a serrated edge. However this could be the result of damage due to plough roll.
The flint tool measures 77.93mm in length, 53.53mm wide and 31.36mm thick. It weighs 79.2 grams.
Finds of Upper Palaeolithic date are rare, especially from Shropshire.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
Period from: PALAEOLITHIC
Period to: PALAEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 40000 BC
Date to: Circa 10000 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 77.93 mm
Width: 53.53 mm
Thickness: 31.36 mm
Weight: 79.2 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Telford and Wrekin (Unitary Authority)
References cited
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1 comment
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Graham Hill wrote @ 21:16:38 on the 10th April 2012.
From the excellent photos; at least 3 major flake scars appear to have origins not on a platform; looking at the ripples and central prominences. Perhaps natural thermal effects on a broken nodule then the recent damage on the produced sharp edge with differently deeply stained flake scars on the wedge sides as they are added in different episodes?
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