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Unique ID: NLM-4021D4
Object type certainty: Probably
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White patinated flint probable burin or borer. Tiny thin elongated concavo-convex curving flake with four long flake removal scars on its dorsal aspect, all converging towards a curved end, and a curving concave face where subsequently struck from the core by fine hard hammer working. The curved end preserves a faint bulb of percussion, suggesting this object was detached from the core by impact at this end after the other working had taken place. The other end was broken in antiquity, though not necessarily at the time of original working -unsurprising given the delicate nature of this piece. The precision of working and the creation of small elongated flakes or microliths implies a Later Mesolithic date. Suggested date: 6500-3500 BC.
Length: 22.2mm, Width: 6.9mm, Thickness: 2.2mm, Weight: 0.38gms.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Period to: MESOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 6500 BC
Date to: Circa 3500 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 22.2 mm
Width: 6.9 mm
Thickness: 2.2 mm
Weight: 0.38 g
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 4th January 2012
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Other reference: NLM19723a
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: SE7704
Four figure Latitude: 53.52703
Four figure longitude: -0.839924
1:25K map: SE7704
1:10K map: SE70SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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