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SCRAPER (TOOL)
Unique ID: SOM-9985B4
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A Prehistoric flint scraper, tentatively dated to 2500-1500 BC. Sub-rectangular in plan and with a sub trapezoidal cross-section, the ventral face is concave, with the curve running between the proximal and distal ends. The flint has been bifacially worked, on the dorsal face the left mesial edge has roughly worked with short, scalar abrupt retouch, the distal half of the right mesial edge has been more finely worked with short, sub-parallel semi-abrupt retouch, the proximal end of this edge is unworked. The dorsal face has 3 parallel flake removal scars, with the right mesial edge cutting into the third. The ventral face is largely unworked, except for on the left mesial edge which has been roughly knapped with long, scalar semi-abrupt retouch. The flint is a translucent pale brown with white flecks.
Length: 25.1mm, Width: 21.5mm, Thickness: 7.0mm, Weight: 5.59g.
It is interesting to note that this scraper appears to be unfinished. Though tools such as this are not diagnostic of any particular period this flint is tentatively indentified as Late-Neolithic/Early Bronze age due to it's being found in reasonably close proximity to a (similarly unfinished) Barbed and Tanged flint arrowhead made of a very similar flint (SOM-34DC37).
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 2500 BC
Date to: Circa 1500 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 25.1 mm
Width: 21.5 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight: 5.59 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt: 017417
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: South Somerset (District)
To be known as: Martock CP
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
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