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Unique ID: KENT-289914
Object type certainty: Certain
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A flint borer of likely early Neolithic date c.4000-3300BC.
The borer is an irregular L-shape. The body of the borer is roughly triangular in cross-section. It has a point picked out in fine covering parralel flaking and its produciton has obsure dmuch of the bulb of percussion which is position at the same end. The point of the borer appears to have snapped off in antiquity. The inside edge of the borer point is concave. The rest of the body of the borer is formed by long shallow covering flaking. It seems likely the borer was formed from a utilised flake of an early date as most of the body is patinated blue/grey-white, save some abrasion showing the underlingin dark grey flint. The retouch of the borer's point is however somwhere between the two. Where visible the conchoidal flaking is feint suggesting soft hammer technology.
Measurements: 38.76mm long, 30.9mm wide, 7.97mm thick and 4.82g in weight.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 3300 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 38.76 mm
Width: 30.9 mm
Thickness: 7.97 mm
Weight: 4.82 g
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Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: TQ9840
Four figure Latitude: 51.12505358
Four figure longitude: 0.82812849
1:25K map: TQ9840
1:10K map: TQ94SE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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