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CORE
Unique ID: DOR-3465C3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A re-utilised flint core, re-used as a hammerstone. Originally a core comprising of at least six large to medium sized flakes taken from two platforms from a naturally fractured nodule fragment of flint with thick chalky cortex surviving at one end and part of one side. The core has been re-utilised as a hammerstone; evidence of this can be seen in an area of well developed characteristic impact chatter and abrasion running around almost half of the circumference. An area of cortex appears to been utilised for grip and is unaffected. The object has high-gloss surfaces where flint is exposed, and grades from almost unpatinated at one end to pale yellow and orange opaque stain at the other.
Date: Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age: 300 to 1600BC
Dimensions: 77mm x 68.4mm x 46.3mm.
Weight: 311g.
Evidence of reuse: Characteristic impact chatter and hammerstone abrasions around part of the central belt.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 3300 BC
Date to: Circa 1600 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 77 mm
Width: 68.4 mm
Thickness: 46.3 mm
Weight: 311 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st June 2017 - Friday 30th June 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCMS-019037/3
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: Tarrant Crawford (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST9303
Four figure Latitude: 50.82649449
Four figure longitude: -2.10075328
1:25K map: ST9303
1:10K map: ST90SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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