Rights Holder: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service
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Unique ID: SWYOR-C9C524
Object type certainty: Certain
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A retouched flint blade of unknown date, Mesoltihic to Neolithic, about 9000 BC - 2200 BC. The blade is formed on translucent tan coloured flint which is not patinated, and is sub-rectangular in plan, with a rounded proximal end. The distal end is truncated. The blade has a triple dorsal ridge. The right edge has minimal, erratic, scaled, short, low-angle retouch from both faces. The flint is 24.7mm long, 14.6mm wide and 3.5mm thick. 1.3g.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 9000 BC
Date to: Circa 2200 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 24.7 mm
Width: 14.6 mm
Thickness: 3.5 mm
Weight: 1.3 g
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 3rd June 2015 - Wednesday 3rd June 2015
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Other reference: PAS form number 2619
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SD9232
Four figure Latitude: 53.78426068
Four figure longitude: -2.12289524
1:25K map: SD9232
1:10K map: SD93SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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