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DEBITAGE
Unique ID: NMS-430255
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Segment of a Neolithic secondary flake of pale grey patinated flint with faint irons stains, struck from a multi-platform core. One facet on the dorsal face is a fracture of natural thermal origin. Both distal and proximal ends of the flake are missing due to transverse bending fractures and the breaks may have occurred when the flake was struck. 28 x 24 x 5mm.
Strip along eastern edge.
Class: Flake
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 2351 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 28 mm
Width: 24 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 19th October 2013 - Friday 31st January 2014
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 30879
Other reference: RC012014
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: East Walton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF7417
Four figure Latitude: 52.72266172
Four figure longitude: 0.57498209
1:25K map: TF7417
1:10K map: TF71NW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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