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DEBITAGE
Unique ID: SF-1FCA78
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An unpatinated and snapped flint long flake or blade of later Prehistoric date. It is struck from a grey/brown flint, snapped at the proximal end and with a slight hinge fracture at the distal end. The dosal face has parallel flake or blade scars, and each side has limited and crude short, semi-abrupt and scaled retouch. This flake measures 29.10mm in length, 15.02mm in width, 5.02mm in thickness, and 2.72g in weight. It is of later Prehistoric date, probably Neolithic or later, c.4000-1 BC.
Class: Flake
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 1 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 29.1 mm
Width: 15.02 mm
Thickness: 5.02 mm
Weight: 2.72 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st June 2015
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: COK 025
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Incomplete
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