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Unique ID: BERK-4DB4E8
Object type certainty: Certain
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A flint scraper made on a natural flake, dating to the later prehistoric period, probably the Bronze Age or later. The scraper has been made on an oval flake of grey-white flint with a brown, iron-stained outer cortex. A spool has popped of from the dorsal surface. These are naturally occuring breaks and can occur because of fragilities in the flint; extreme temperature changes can cause spooling (for example if water infiltrates the rock then swells due to freezing) as can pressure. Minimal retouching around one half of the dorsal lateral suggests this tool was used as a scraper. Interestingly, and incedentally, there is the remains of a fossilised creature imbedded on the dorsal surface of the flint. This appears to be the remains of a sea creature, probably a sponge.
Class: Scraper
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 2100 BC
Date to: Circa 800 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 38.77 mm
Width: 32.71 mm
Thickness: 8.92 mm
Weight: 10.8 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 2012 - Tuesday 7th February 2012
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Other reference: 2011.688
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SP5344
Four figure Latitude: 52.091816
Four figure longitude: -1.227821
1:25K map: SP5344
1:10K map: SP54SW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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