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DEBITAGE
Unique ID: SF-49DBEA
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A patinated flake, perhaps a core rejuvenation flake, of possible final Upper Palaeolithic to Mesolithic date. It is struck from a grey/brown flint with blue/grey patination, cortex remaining in a small area at the distal end. The flake has a small striking platform and relatively prominent bulb of percussion with multiple flake scars on the dorsal face. One side of the flake may perhaps have formed part of a core platform with damage or preparation from where the flakes and blades were originally struck. Along one side of the flake is a small area of 'bruised' edge damage, perhaps resultant from usage. It measures 76.17mm in length, 76.59mm in width, 26.93mm in thickness, and 76.02g in weight.
This is a flint flake. It forms one part of a larger assemblage of flint blades, flakes, and tools, all found together on spoil excavated from a single pit during the construction of a soakaway. The complete assemblage finds close parallels to excavated long blade assemblages and industries in the surrounding landscape, most notably those recently published in the immediate vicinity at Brandon (E. Martin in Tester et al., 'Staunch Meadow, Brandon, Suffolk' EAA 151, 2014: p. 26). The presence of long blades (backed blades and bruised blades/lame mâchurée) within the assemblage suggests at least a Mesolithic date for the group, potentially extending into the final stages of the Upper Palaeolithic, perhaps c.12,000-4,000 BC.
Class: Flake
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: PALAEOLITHIC
Period to: MESOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 12000 BC
Date to: Circa 4001 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 76.17 mm
Width: 76.59 mm
Thickness: 26.93 mm
Weight: 76.02 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st November 2014
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: BRD 248
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Forest Heath (District)
To be known as: Brandon
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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