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CORE
Unique ID: SWYOR-DEBB78
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Three flint cores of probable Mesolithic date. The smallest is 21.47mm long, 19.98mm wide and 12.02mm thick. 4.75g. It is an exhausted blade core formed from mottled tan flint. The next is 31.67mm long, 28.07mm wide and 14.79mm thick. 12.7g. It is a blade core on mottled grey flint. The last is 34.58mm long, 25.5mm wide and 20.13mm thick. 17.47g. It is a unideirectional blade core with some cortex on one edge. The flitn is mottled grey.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 8300 BC
Date to: Circa 3500 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 3
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 25th December 2011 - Wednesday 25th January 2012
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: PAS form number 1738
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: West Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Brampton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK8380
Four figure Latitude: 53.310445
Four figure longitude: -0.755748
1:25K map: SK8380
1:10K map: SK88SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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