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Unique ID: BERK-02E468
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
A flint nose scraper on a plunging blade from a double platformed core, therefore of Mesolithic or Neolithic date (c. 8000-2400 BC). The object is formed on a tertiary flake of a mottled grey flint. There are three, if not more, two-directional removals visible on the dorsal surface; although neither platform survives, this is indicitive of a double platformed core. The thinner distal end has some fine soft hammer retouch on its tip which has lead to its identification as a nose scraper, however this may also have been the result of removal or preperation of the platform. This is probably of Neolithic date however a slightly earlier date cannot be ruled out.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 8000 BC
Date to: Circa 2400 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 51.6 mm
Width: 29.3 mm
Thickness: 11.8 mm
Weight: 15.1 g
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Other reference: OXPAS2015.650
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SU4196
Four figure Latitude: 51.66129376
Four figure longitude: -1.40864854
1:25K map: SU4196
1:10K map: SU49NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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