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SCRAPER (TOOL)
Unique ID: SOM-8E5891
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Three miscellaneous shaped scrapers. Probably Neolithic or Bronze Age in date, 19.1 grams.
a. Probably a broken half of a discoid or horseshoe scraper. Distal part of a flake with a snap across the proximal end. Long, parallel, abrupt retouch around the distal end becoming more scalar on the right edge and semi-abrupt on what remains of the left edge. Dark grey flint with paler areas, 6.7 grams.
b. Small side and end scraper formed on an early secondary flake. Thick bulb of percussion on ventral face. Cortex covers the distal face apart from where it is retouched. Break to the left side of the proximal end (seen from the dorsal face). Long, parallel, semi-abrupt retouch down the left edge and left part of the distal end on the dorsal face; more abrupt, scalar retouch down the right edge becoming shorter towards the proximal end. Medium flint, 5.0 grams.
c. Side scraper formed on a large flake. Irregular chips on the ventral and dorsal faces have removed the proximal end. Break down the right edge on the dorsal face, long parallel semi-abrupt retouch at the distal end becoming semi-parallel and abrupt down the left edge. Medium to dark grey banded flint, 7.3 grams.
Notes:
Part of a large collection of field walked material collected over many years from several fields. The collection includes definite evidence of Mesolithic activity including microliths and bladelets, some possibly Early -Middle Neolithic material including blades, leaf shaped arrowheads and a fragment of polished axehead and some Early Bronze Age material such as thumbnail scrapers. Much of the debitage could belong to any of these periods. There are no distinct Late Neolithic tool types such as tranchet arrowheads but some of the debitage and more undiagnostic flakes could belong to that period. The producers of this material utilised a wide range of materials including local chert, greensand chert, Portland chert and good and poor quality flint, most probably from smaller pebbles sourced locally but some which appears to be high quality downland flint. This suggests they were utilising materials from a wide range of sources including material from South and East Somerset at the closest.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 3500 BC
Date to: Circa 1500 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 3
Weight: 19.1 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 21st January 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC 020756
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: Taunton Deane (District)
Parish or ward: Bishop's Lydeard (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST1630
Four figure Latitude: 51.063168
Four figure longitude: -3.200088
1:25K map: ST1630
1:10K map: ST13SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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