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LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Unique ID: CORN-197CE6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Group of fifty flint implements, thirteen of which are photographed here as the best worked pieces, including a leaf-shaped arrowhead, two gravers, three blades, three notched flakes and four scrapers, all dating from the Neolithic period c.4500-2100 BC. The majority of the group, eighteen, are waterworn waste pieces, or debitage, and there are thirteen worked waterworn flakes and six worked pieces apart from those illustrated here. The flint is mottled light to dark grey in colour with cortex remaining on some pieces, which is typical of the local beach flint found in the area.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4500 BC
Date to: Circa 2100 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 50
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 12th July 2010 - Friday 23rd July 2010
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Isles of Scilly (Unitary Authority)
District: Isles of Scilly (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Tresco (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SV8915
Four figure Latitude: 49.95399266
Four figure longitude: -6.33729847
1:25K map: SV8915
1:10K map: SV95SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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