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FABRICATOR
Unique ID: DOR-882308
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete flint fabricator. Made using a thick primary flake very dark grey to black highly siliceous flint which retains an area of nodule cortex on the dorsal face. The striking platform and bulb of percussion have been partially ground out and there are areas of polish and grinding on all surfaces, often removing the flake scar ridges. The finger-shaped fabricator has a profile which is triangular at the distal end and changes to D-shaped at the proximal end. There a remnants of large scale abrupt retouch along the long edges, worked from the ventral face.
Date: Neolithic to Early Bronze Age c. 3500 - 1500 BC
Dimensions: 66 mm x 14.5 mm x 16.5 mm
Weight: 21.5 g
Fabricators have a wide date range, but the polish evident on this example suggests it is more likely to be Neolithic to Early Bronze Age.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 3500 BC
Date to: Circa 1500 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 66 mm
Width: 14.5 mm
Thickness: 16.5 mm
Weight: 21.5 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 30th August 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCMS 017049
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: East Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Gussage All Saints (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU0010
Four figure Latitude: 50.8894854
Four figure longitude: -2.00137029
1:25K map: SU0010
1:10K map: SU01SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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