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LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Unique ID: SF-364A74
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A complete knapped flint lithic implement dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, c. 4000-1500 BC. The implement probably represents a bifacially worked knife, consisting an elongated sub-triangular flake with a rounded butt, pointed tip and lenticular cross-section. It has been manufactured on a dark bluish-grey piece of fine-grained flint, with some iron staining and small white inclusions visible. The original support for this tool seems to have consisted a relatively large secondary or tertiary flake, with one edge still demonstrating the remains of a patinated outer white surface. Up its entire length on both faces, the support demonstrates long and wide removals suggestive of soft-hammer percussion, with some finer hard-hammer retouching visible around the butt and towards the tip on one edge. Preserved in relatively fresh and unpatinated condition, it measures c. 92.3mm long, 33.02mm wide at its widest point, and 9.25mm thick at its midpoint. It weighs 33.34g.
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 1500 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 92.3 mm
Width: 33.02 mm
Thickness: 9.25 mm
Weight: 33.34 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 10th July 2017
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: St. Edmundsbury (District)
To be known as: Rougham
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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