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SCRAPER (TOOL)
Unique ID: PUBLIC-ED92DD
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A scraper fabricated on a natural flake of mottled, orange-brown flint. The flake is sub-triangular in plan with a large area of off-white cortex on one face, the opposing face being free of cortex. The flake has been worked across one side using invasive, scaled, low-angle retouch to create a concave scraping edge. The flake is also worked at one end to produce a wide point using short, scaled, semi-abrupt retouch. 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: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 1600 BC
Date to: Circa 1 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 29.9 mm
Width: 33.48 mm
Thickness: 17.62 mm
Weight: 38.45 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 21st August 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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