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SERRATED IMPLEMENT
Unique ID: NLM-D17702
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Grey flint with slight patches of misty patina, serrated implement. Long flake with long parallel flakes struck from its dorsal side and very faintly rippled on the ventral. Very fine short abrupt retouch executed from the dorsal side follows one long edge and, possibly as a separate episode, one end of the opposite edge, producing a serrated edge so fine it is more easily felt than seen. The tip is perhaps lost at an oblique and probably recent break. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000- BC.
Length: 30.0mm, Width: 10.9mm, Thickness: 3.1mm, Weight: 1.14gms.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MESOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 7000 BC
Date to: Circa 4000 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 30 mm
Width: 10.9 mm
Thickness: 3.1 mm
Weight: 1.14 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 12th May 2015
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM29366
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: Binbrook
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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