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HAMMERSTONE
Unique ID: DOR-D8DA9A
Object type certainty: Probably
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A probable hammerstone or grinding tool. A large, tapering, flint core of light grey-brown flint with heavy off-white mottled patination and frequent iron staining. A multi-platform core which has subsequently been re-used at its widest, rounded end, probably to crush or grind another material. This has resulted in an area of use chatter like that seen on round hammerstones.
Date: Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 to 1600 BC
Dimensions: 95.2 mm x 47.9 mm x 44.1 mm
Weight: 223 g
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 1600 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 95.2 mm
Width: 47.9 mm
Thickness: 44.1 mm
Weight: 223 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCMS 016498
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: North Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Milton Abbas (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST8101
Four figure Latitude: 50.80823778
Four figure longitude: -2.27102228
1:25K map: ST8101
1:10K map: ST80SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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