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LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Unique ID: FAKL-6A8BDE
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Lithic implement combining a scraper and a denticulate blade made on a piece of poor quality, opaqued, mixed white and grey flint with a small area of original cortex at one end. This suggests that the blade, with a low bulb of percussion, had been struck from a flint cobble. Retouch (short, scaled, semi-abrupt) at one end forms a scraper. Coarse teeth were produced along one side using short, scaled, abrupt, retouch. This object is difficult to date but its poor qualitiy suggest that it is late, probably Late Neolithic or Bronze Age. . Length 63mm, Width 31mm, Thickness 12.5mm, Mass 30.30g.
Class: Notched flake
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 9000 BC
Date to: Circa 3300 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 63 mm
Width: 31 mm
Thickness: 12.5 mm
Weight: 30.3 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: IF a 204
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Sussex (County)
District: Lewes (District)
Parish or ward: Iford (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ3906
Four figure Latitude: 50.83684529
Four figure longitude: -0.02734783
1:25K map: TQ3906
1:10K map: TQ30NE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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