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DEBITAGE
Unique ID: NLM-352777
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Black glossy flint of high quality with cortex, perhaps collected on the East Coast. Debitage. Flake with two long parallel flake or cortex removal scars on its dorsal; aspect, a prominent striking platform, and a prominent bulb or percussion on the ventral side. Edge and end damage is probably fortuitous, being struck from rather than towards the edge or end. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic to Early Neolithic, 7000-3500 BC.
Length: 43.4mm, Width: 21mm, Thickness: 9.5mm, Weight: 9.09gms.
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 7000 BC
Date to: Circa 3500 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 43.4 mm
Width: 21 mm
Thickness: 9.5 mm
Weight: 9.09 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 8th October 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM23843a
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: North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Grimsby
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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