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LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Unique ID: PUBLIC-6C1B62
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An Early Neolithic, notched flint scraper. The scraper has been fabricated from a secondary flake of dark brown flint. There is a clear bulb of percussion at the proximal end of the flake, with ripples of percussion across the ventral face. The dorsal face is free of cortex and has a large step-fracture, suggesting that the flake may have been originally struck to rejuvenate a core. There is a small amount of thick, off-white cortex remaining at one point on the edge of the flake. The flake has been worked along one edge using very fine pressure-flaking to create a shallow notch.
Class:
Scraper
Sub class: Notched
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 3500 BC
Date to: Circa 2500 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 26.8 mm
Width: 19.9 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight: 3.26 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 15th August 2011
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Fotherby
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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