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SCRAPER (TOOL)
Unique ID: PUBLIC-9FAF96
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A scraper fabricated on a natural flake of mottled pale brown and grey flint with a single, small area of cream-coloured cortex remaining. There is some creamy-white recortification on one face. One edge of the flake has been worked using short, scaled, semi-abrupt retouch to form a deep, concave scraping edge or large notch. The rest of the circumference of the flake has been worked using coarse, short, scaled, semi-abrupt retouch to soften the sharp edges, presumably to make it more comfortable to use in the hand. This crude type of tool, utilising a natural flake, is typical of flint working during later Prehistory.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 1600 BC
Date to: Circa 1 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 82.31 mm
Width: 41.78 mm
Thickness: 25.62 mm
Weight: 59.88 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 20th March 2016
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Utterby
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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