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CORE
Unique ID: DOR-30E112
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A discoidal or keeled core. Dark grey and mid grey patchy flint with a high gloss surface. A large nodule fragment which has been knapped from the edges resulting in a sub discoidal core with an irregular bi-conical profile. There are numerous broad flaking scars over both faces and the margin is thinned to a sharp edge. There is an area of abraded nodule cortex along one side.
Date: Neolithic - 4000 - 2350 BC
Dimensions: 45.1 mm x 38.1 mm x 25.1 mm
Weight: 42.80 g
Class: Keeled
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 2350 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 45.1 mm
Width: 38.1 mm
Thickness: 25.1 mm
Weight: 42.8 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 3rd October 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: Silton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST7829
Four figure Latitude: 51.05991271
Four figure longitude: -2.315298
1:25K map: ST7829
1:10K map: ST72NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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