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Unique ID: SUSS-CB1BBF
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete Mesolithic - Neolithic flint blade 6300-1500 BC. The flint is tertiary, and brown in colour, and has a small striking platform, bulb and ripples it has broken at one end suggesting the blade continued on, though the rest is now lost.
The blade is 26.91mm long, 17.63mm wide, 4.35mm thick, and weighs 2.31grams.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 6300 BC
Date to: Circa 1500 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 26.91 mm
Width: 17.63 mm
Thickness: 4.35 mm
Weight: 2.31 g
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Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: TQ2727
Four figure Latitude: 51.02834595
Four figure longitude: -0.19036135
1:25K map: TQ2727
1:10K map: TQ22NE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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