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SCRAPER (TOOL)
Unique ID: KENT-30EE0E
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A flint scraper of likely late Neolithic - early Bronze age (3300 - 1000 BC) date.
Description: The scraper is formed from a tertiary flake with a low bulb of percussion on the ventral face and heavy and pronounced conchoidal rippling. Scaled semi-abrupt retouch along half the length of one edge abutting the striking platform. The flint is dark brown fading to light at the edges.
Measurements: 53.18mm long, 26.94mm wide, 5.9mm thick and 8.17g in weight.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 3300 BC
Date to: Circa 1000 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 53.18 mm
Width: 26.94 mm
Thickness: 5.9 mm
Weight: 8.17 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Ashford (District)
Parish or ward: Aldington (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TR0635
Four figure Latitude: 51.07733382
Four figure longitude: 0.93944283
1:25K map: TR0635
1:10K map: TR03NE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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