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BLADE
Unique ID: DOR-3101E6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A flint blade or large bladelet. A secondary flake of dark grey and mid grey patchy flint with a mid gloss surface. A small, abraded striking platform at the proximal end and a small area of thick, nodule cortex. On the ventral face is a small, low bulb of percussion and numerous, closely spaced waves. The ventral face is curved. On the dorsal face are several narrow, parallel, elongate flaking scars. The blade has a trapeziodal cross section. The distal end has been broken off.
Date: Late Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 8000-3300 BC
Dimensions: 55.3 mm x 16.6 mm x 7.3 mm
Weight: 6.97 g
Class: Blade or bladelet
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 8000 BC
Date to: Circa 3300 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 55.3 mm
Width: 16.6 mm
Thickness: 7.3 mm
Weight: 6.97 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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