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CORE
Unique ID: PUBLIC-0D7B05
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A core worked nearly all the way around a section of nodule of brown flint. The single platform appears to have been a natural thermal fracture and this was chosen out of the many available surface flints. There has been a little preparation prior to flake removal with abrasion of the platform edge and then a consistent set of thin flakes with feathered terminations struck off with a soft hammer. There is a cortex covered dimple at the base of the core and remaining cortex and a natural thermal facet below it. A truncated flake scar at the base next to the dimple shows that the core has lost a large piece due to frost fracturing. The flaws may have been already in the nodule before its use. One of the cracks seems to have distorted the shape of a flake scar next to the fractured area. The knapper may have discarded the core at this point when part of it fell off! The core has picked up variable patination from marbled blue/cream to nearly solid cream.
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Heamoor
Subsequent action after recording: In a private collection, recorded for academic use
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 4500 BC
Date to: Circa 2100 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 106 mm
Width: 82 mm
Thickness: 51 mm
Weight: 360 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 3rd August 2011 - Wednesday 3rd August 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 612.1
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Medway (Unitary Authority)
District: Medway (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: 5 Hoath Close
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bond, C. | 2005 | PAS Guide to the Identification, Assessment and Recording of Lithics | London | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | p.138 | fig 5.125, F2 |
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