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DEBITAGE
Unique ID: BERK-3EF09E
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A irregular and weather damaged flint waste flake (debitage) of general prehistoric date. The flake retains c. 30% cortex on the dorsal side and is this whole surface has been damaged through frost action (probably). The bulb and platform is retained on this mottled milky-grey flint, but there is not retouch. Probably later Neolithic or Bronze Age in date (c. 2300-1800 BC).
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Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Exactly 2300 BC
Date to: Circa 1800 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 38.5 mm
Width: 21.4 mm
Thickness: 5.6 mm
Weight: 4.7 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: OXPAS2015.694
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Buckinghamshire (County)
District: Aylesbury Vale (District)
Parish or ward: Aston Sandford (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP7507
Four figure Latitude: 51.75667679
Four figure longitude: -0.91481023
1:25K map: SP7507
1:10K map: SP70NE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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