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LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Unique ID: YORYM-586202
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete knapped lithic implement of Neolithic date. The implement is an end scraper, obovate in plan and rectangular in section. The ventral surface is smooth with ripples of percussion radiating from what remains of a negative scar. The right mesial portion has been retouched. Roughly 90% of the dorsal surface remains coated in cortex and the distal edge is steep though slopes from right to left with extensive retouch which continues to the upper right mesial portion of the lithic.
The flint is a mid blackish-grey colour with some small lighter inclusions. The implement is 35.6mm long, 38.5mm wide, 9.2mm thick and weighs 23.6g.
A parallel can be seen in Bond, p.137, fig.5.124, no.F14.
Class: Scraper
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 3500 BC
Date to: Circa 2500 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 35.6 mm
Width: 38.5 mm
Thickness: 9.2 mm
Weight: 23.6 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
District: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Bempton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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