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BORER
Unique ID: NLM-B8025A
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Grey flint with cortex spot borer fragment. A small flake with broad flakes struck from its dorsal side and with a rippled ventral surface. A light misty patina developed over struck surfaces. This is removed by short abrupt retouch defining a small point at the narrow end; a break immediately adjacent was probably incurred after the deposition of the object. The Neolithic could accommodate both primary and secondary episodes of working. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2350 BC.
Length: 27.5mm, Width: 26.7mm, Thickness: 5.3mm, Weight: 3.34gms
Evidence of reuse: Interruption of patina by retouch
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 2350 BC
Period of reuse: NEOLITHIC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 27.5 mm
Width: 26.7 mm
Thickness: 5.3 mm
Weight: 3.34 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 21st March 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM35740
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Binbrook
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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