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DEBITAGE
Unique ID: GLO-53A165
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Mesolithic-Neolithic
three fragments of flint working waste ranging form 45mmlong, 22mm wide, 6mm thick, to 10mm long, 6mm wide, 2mm thick. Two fragments have the cortex still attached. There are no signs of any working edges on any of the fragments. All of the artefacts are very poorly struck. All show signs of the bulb of percussion and emanating ripples.
Very dark grey patina with mid grey mottling.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 3
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 52
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Gloucestershire (County)
District: Forest of Dean (District)
Parish or ward: Longhope (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SO6920
Four figure Latitude: 51.877698
Four figure longitude: -2.45173
1:25K map: SO6920
1:10K map: SO62SE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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