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KNIFE
Unique ID: NLM-095C76
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Pale grey flint with cortex spot knife fragment. A thin flake with covering angled scalar retouch across its dorsal side and with a flat ventral surface with invasive angled scalar retouch executed from the ventral aspect. Broken, probably recently, at one end; what remains approaches a sub-rectangular form. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2350 BC.
Length: 24.1mm, Width: 26.3mm, Thickness: 3.9mm, Weight: 3.13gms
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
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 24.1 mm
Width: 26.3 mm
Thickness: 3.9 mm
Weight: 3.13 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 6th October 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM37520
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: West Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Bigby (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TA0508
Four figure Latitude: 53.55812828
Four figure longitude: -0.41635599
1:25K map: TA0508
1:10K map: TA00NE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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