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SCRAPER (TOOL)
Unique ID: DOR-1D988E
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete rounded flint scraper. Made on a tertiary flake of dark and light grey patchy flint with a mid gloss patina. At the proximal end is the remnant of the wide striking platform and on the ventral face is low bulb of percussion with large bulbar scar and a few widely spaced waves of percussion. There are several parallel flaking scars on the dorsal face. There is long semi-abrupt sub-parallel retouch around the curved distal edge remaining sides covering around 80% of the perimeter. The proximal end has been broken.
Date: Neolithic to Early Bronze Age c. 4000 - 1600 BC
Dimensions: 37.9 mm x 35.3 mm x 9.8 mm
Weight: 13.99 g
Class: Rounded
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 1600 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 37.9 mm
Width: 35.3 mm
Thickness: 9.9 mm
Weight: 13.99 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 11th October 2010
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: North Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Gillingham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST7927
Four figure Latitude: 51.04196629
Four figure longitude: -2.30091239
1:25K map: ST7927
1:10K map: ST72NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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