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BORER
Unique ID: KENT-6032B0
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete flint borer of late Bronze Age - Early Iron Age date (c. 1000 BC - 1BC).
The borer is sub-triangular in plan with three large faces and multiple striking platforms. There is extensive short scaled low angle retouch along the mesal (sides) of the main dorsal facing, with striking coming in from multiple angles. primarly from the main dorsal face on the right side and from the ventral face on the left. The point has snapped off. The primary striking platform is very flat with multiple strikings, the other striking platforms have tended only to take out a few flakes and seem to be more likely fumbled retouch. The bulbs of percussion and the conchoidal fractures are very pronounced which suggests hard hammer striking and the general crudety of the tool suggest a very late date.
The borer is a very dark grey-brown colour, with small veins of light grey on one facing. One facing almost entirely covered in white cortex.
Measurements: 82.67mm long, 57.59mm wide, 37.8mm thick and 147.1g in weight.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 1000 BC
Date to: Circa 1 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 82.67 mm
Width: 57.59 mm
Thickness: 37.8 mm
Weight: 147.1 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Dover (District)
To be known as: Goodnestone
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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