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MICROLITH
Unique ID: BERK-35BF20
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A flint microblade or microlith dating to the Mesolithic period (10,000-4001 BC). The microlith has been made on a mottled light bluish-grey flint with white calcification. All that survives in this example is the tip of the distal end.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Period to: MESOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 10000 BC
Date to: Circa 4001 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 25
Length: 7.2 mm
Width: 7.7 mm
Thickness: 1.5 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 2014.474
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: Vale of White Horse (District)
Parish or ward: Fyfield and Tubney (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU4299
Four figure Latitude: 51.68819219
Four figure longitude: -1.39383229
1:25K map: SU4299
1:10K map: SU49NW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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