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SCRAPER (TOOL)
Unique ID: SOM-78504F
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Knapped side-and-end scraper made on a tertiary flint flake. It is broadly D-shaped in plan. At the short straight proximal end is a very large bulb of percussion on the ventral face, interrupted by a very deep bulb scar or later damage. It is trapezoid in section with two arrises running down the dorsal face created by the scars from previous removals of large flakes parallel to this one. There is some damage from mis-strikes at the edge of the platform at the proximal end of the dorsal face
The retouch extends around the distal end complete down one side. Long, scaler, abrupt retouch has created an almost straight distal end. The retouch along the convex curved right edge (as seen from the dorsal face) is more sub-parallel and shorter, abrupt at the distal end and semi-abrupt to shallow in the cnetre as the flake thins. Damage at the distal and proximal ends of this edge obscure some of the retouch. The opposite side is straight and chipped in places but has no retouch.
It is 45.9mm long, 37.1mm wide and 9.8mm thick; it weighs 17.92g. The worked areas are heavily recorticated, covered in thick, white patina obscuring the colour of the flint.
The thickness of the flake and large bulb of percussion suggests hard hammer working and a later Neolithic or Bronze Age date, c. 3,300 to 800 BC.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 3300 BC
Date to: Circa 800 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 45.9 mm
Width: 37.1 mm
Thickness: 9.8 mm
Weight: 17.92 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt 16618
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: South Somerset (District)
To be known as: Misterton CP
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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