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SICKLE
Unique ID: NMS-6C7680
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age basal fragment of a bifacially worked sickle blade of plano-convex section. The pointed tip is recently broken transversely revealing unpatinated black flint. The extant part is patinated white with spotty iron staining with one small patch of weathered cortex on the dorsal face. Both faces are entirely covered with direct soft hammer percussion flakes overlain with invasive pressure flake scars. Cf. a similar sickle blade from Barton Bendish (NHER 13548). 75 x 28.5 x 8mm. c.3000 - c.1500.
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 3000 BC
Date to: Circa 1501 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 11th January 2016 - Monday 8th February 2016
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 24485
Other reference: KLMD022016
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Methwold (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL7295
Four figure Latitude: 52.52572089
Four figure longitude: 0.53395722
1:25K map: TL7295
1:10K map: TL79NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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