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SCRAPER (TOOL)
Unique ID: PUBLIC-2A7A11
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A scraper fabricated on a thermal flake of mottled brown flint. The scraper is tongue-shaped in plan. One face has circular ripples radiating from a central point and the opposing face is covered in pale grey cortex. One area of the cortex is damaged, probably from the action of agricultural machinery rather than being deliberate. One edge of the flake has been worked along its entire length using short, scaled, semi-abrupt retouch to produce a scraping edge. This scraper is probably Neolithic in date.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 2200 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 39.21 mm
Width: 17.89 mm
Thickness: 5.44 mm
Weight: 5.69 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 30th November 2014
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Utterby
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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