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CORE
Unique ID: NMS-0E45C9
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Multi-platform core worked down from a nodule or frost fracture of mottled grey and brown flint with an orange inclusion on one face, a small patch of orange patinated cortex remains to one edge. All flake removals are hard hammer struck. Neolithic to Bronze Age.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 701 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 59 mm
Width: 53 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight: 83 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 22nd February 2017 - Wednesday 29th March 2017
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 60270
Other reference: DDMD032017
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: Breckland (District)
Parish or ward: Great Ellingham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TM0398
Four figure Latitude: 52.54199733
Four figure longitude: 0.99212313
1:25K map: TM0398
1:10K map: TM09NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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