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SCRAPER (TOOL)
Unique ID: PUBLIC-179755
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A light brown mottled semi translucent flint thumbnail scraper tool made on a secondary flake. Cortex remains on a very small nodular area on the left side of the dorsal face. Low gloss patina and sub oval in shape. The ventral face shows a prominent bulb of percussion and bulbar scar indicating probable use of a hard hammer. The dorsal face shows multiple broad flake removal scars and short, scaled, semi-abrupt retouch extending around 75% of the tool on the distal end and right side.
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age: 3300 to 1600BC
Dimensions: 38mm x 32mm x 8mm
Weight: 10.3g
Class: Thumbnail Scraper
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 3300 BC
Date to: Circa 1600 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 38 mm
Width: 32 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight: 11.3 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st September 2014 - Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 182
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Donhead St Mary
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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