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FLAKE
Unique ID: DOR-40CE07
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A tertiary waste flake. A flake of gark grey-brown flint with a mid gloss patina. The proximal end has been damaged. There is a remnant of a small bulb of precussion and distinct waves of percussion on the ventral face. There are numerous, small parallel flake removal scars on the dorsal face. There i8s a hinge fracture at the distal end. Waste from bladelet production.
Date: Neolithic c. 4000 - 2500 BC
Dimensions: 35.5 mm x 25.5 mm x 7.5 mm
Weight: 6.75 g
Class:
Waste flake
Sub class: Tertiary
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 2500 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 35.5 mm
Width: 25.5 mm
Thickness: 7.5 mm
Weight: 6.75 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 21st March 2015
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCMS 016479
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: Purbeck (District)
Parish or ward: Wareham Town (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SY9187
Four figure Latitude: 50.68258493
Four figure longitude: -2.12875283
1:25K map: SY9187
1:10K map: SY97SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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