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SCRAPER (TOOL)
Unique ID: LEIC-054916
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Palaeolithic (Upper) core/carinated scraper, 39mm long, 25mm wide, 17mm thick and 17.5g in weight. Small core that has been extensively worked. One end has been steeply and heavily retouched to produce a scraper. The piece has been burnt in antiquity and now possesses a bluish grey patination that has some iron staining present.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: PALAEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: PALAEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 40000 BC
Date to: Circa 8001 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 39 mm
Width: 25 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight: 17.5 g
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Melton (District)
Parish or ward: Scalford (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK7625
Four figure Latitude: 52.81719198
Four figure longitude: -0.87375008
1:25K map: SK7625
1:10K map: SK72NE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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