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SCRAPER (TOOL)
Unique ID: NLM-B99912
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Pinkish grey mottled flint scraper. Hollow scraper. Thick flake with a broad rippled flake struck from its dorsal side and with a bulbar ventral surface. The sides are trimmed, probably by hard hammer strike from the dorsal aspect. Very short abrupt retouch executed from the ventral aspect forms a marked notch in the narrower end of the flake. This may have been used for scraping or straightening a narrow shaft. Suggested date: Early Bronze Age, 2350-1600 BC.
Length: 43mm, Width: 37.4mm, Thickness: 10.6mm, Weight: 18.45gms.
Class: Hollow
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 2350 BC
Date to: Circa 1600 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 43 mm
Width: 37.4 mm
Thickness: 10.6 mm
Weight: 18.45 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st September 2016
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM33707
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: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: near Caistor
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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