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BORER
Unique ID: DOR-304EFC
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A large flint borer or piercer. Made on a cortical flake of patchy grey and off-white flint. The surface is glossy and slightly yellowed. The proximal end has a large striking platform.On the ventral face is diffuse bulb of percussion and numerous closely spaced waves of percussion. On the dorsal faces are several elongate flake removals and a large area of worn nodule cortex. The beak has been formed by abrupt retouch along one margin and by utilising the natural curve of the original nodule on the other.
Date: Neolithic to Early Bronze Age c. 4000 - 1600 BC
Dimensions: 46.5 mm x 34.6 mm x 13.1 mm
Weight: 23.50 g
Class: Piercer or borerA large pircer or borer.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Early
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
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 3rd September 2012
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
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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