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SERRATED IMPLEMENT
Unique ID: PUBLIC-65BD70
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Rectangular piece of translucent brown coloured piece of flint with lighter speckled in the surface. The dorsal face is uneven and appears to have been removed from a core, several negative scars apparent on its surface. The proximal edge is uneven and rough in appearance. The right margin may have been subject to retouch, with some serration possible along its edge. The distal edge appears broken or snapped off, but does appear to have been blunted by retouch. The left margin again appears to have subject to some retouch with implied micro serrations along its edge. The ventral face is smooth in appearance with the bulb of percussion still present, some conchoidal rippling present within the materials surface. Possible indications of retouch along the right and left margins.
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Royal Cornwall Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Donated to a museum
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4500 BC
Date to: Circa 2100 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 18.5 mm
Width: 13.18 mm
Thickness: 4.07 mm
Weight: 1.1 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 2006 - Tuesday 31st January 2006
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 6.17
Museum accession number: 2011.23
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Paul (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SW4627
Four figure Latitude: 50.088689
Four figure longitude: -5.552343
1:25K map: SW4627
1:10K map: SW47SE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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