KENT-6E83BA: A knapped flint Late Neolithic to Bronze Age Hollow Scraper, likely dating to c 3300-1000 BC.

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SCRAPER (TOOL)

Unique ID: KENT-6E83BA

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

A knapped flint rounded scraper of probable Neolithic or Early Bronze Age date (c. 4000-1000 BC). The flint is a primary flake and is black in colour; the dorsal face is covered with cream-orange cortex. The sides have been shaped with short, scaled, semi-abrupt and abrupt retouch. The scraper is 18.2 mm in length, 27.5 mm wide, 10.3 mm thick and weighs 5.8 g.

Class: Rounded scraper

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 1000 BC

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 18.2 mm
Width: 27.5 mm
Thickness: 10.3 mm
Weight: 5.8 g

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete

Spatial metadata

Region: South East (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Canterbury (District)
Parish or ward: Hackington (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: TR1561
Four figure Latitude: 51.30748853
Four figure longitude: 1.08328522
1:25K map: TR1561
1:10K map: TR16SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Fieldwalking
Discovery circumstances: Fieldwalking.

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Recording Institution: KENT
Created: 9 years ago
Updated: 9 years ago

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