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BLADE
Unique ID: LANCUM-443635
Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Proximal end of a patinated white flint flake with pronounced dorsal ridge and defuse bulb of percussion. Use-wear on both edges.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 6500 BC
Date to: Circa 2900 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 18 mm
Width: 9 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight: 0.46 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 22nd March 2012
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: West Oxfordshire (District)
To be known as: Bampton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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