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DEBITAGE
Unique ID: HESH-82A8D1
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Small flake of secondary debitage dated broadly to the Neolithic period (3500-2100 BC). The flake is irregular and surfaces although irregular bare flaking scars. The lower edge has been reworked with abrupt retouch to form a crude scraping tool. The flake is a mid grey brown colour with significant colour variation, approximately 40% of the upper / dorsal surface is covered with a white coloured cortex.
The flake measures 24.5mm length, is 22.2mm wide, and is 6.8mm thick; it weighs 3.31 grams
Class:
Secondary
Sub class: Scraper
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 3500 BC
Date to: Circa 2100 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 2
Length: 24.5 mm
Width: 22.2 mm
Thickness: 6.8 mm
Weight: 3.31 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
District: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Eaton Bishop (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SO4438
Four figure Latitude: 52.03756
Four figure longitude: -2.817804
1:25K map: SO4438
1:10K map: SO43NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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