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Unique ID: IOW-16180B
Object type certainty: Certain
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A complete late Neolithic to early Bronze Age flint scraper (c. 2700 BC-1601 BC).
This opaque scraper, produced on a secondary flake, is sub-rectangular in plan and sub-rectangular in cross-section. The dorsal face has about 65% flake removal and about 35% cortex. The dorsal face has been retouched all around except part of the right hand edge. The retouch is semi-abrupt, short, parallel and sub-parallel. The ventral face has been crudely retouched on the right and left edge. It has a low bulb of percussion and numerous conchoidal ripples which are not apparent on the image.
This scraper is patinated shiny off-white with creamy mottling and the cortex is buff.
Length: 40.5mm; width: 35.0mm; thickness: 10.9mm. Weight: 21.29g.
Current location of find: Finder
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 2700 BC
Date to: Exactly 1601 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 40.5 mm
Width: 35 mm
Thickness: 10.9 mm
Weight: 21.29 g
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 10th December 2016 - Saturday 10th December 2016
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Other reference: IOW2016-1-353
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Grid reference source: GPS (From FLO)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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