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Unique ID: NLM-0993B8
Object type certainty: Certain
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Mottled toffee-coloured iron-stained flint, probably collected from the East Coast; laurel leaf knife. A large flat oval flake of lentoid section with a single dished negative pot lid fracture on the dorsal side and with a nearly flat ventral surface. Short angled scalar retouch executed from the dorsal aspect follows most of the curved edge. Invasive angled scalar retouch executed from the ventral aspect follows about one third of the edge, along part of one side and the adjoining curved end, producing a robust cutting edge. The flake used to make the knife appears to have been incorporated in gravels of Palaeolithic date though the techniques used in its finishing are more recent, as is the form. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2350 BC.
Length: 67.4mm, Width: 43mm, Thickness: 11mm, Weight: 39.14gms
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 2350 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 67.4 mm
Width: 43 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight: 39.14 g
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 6th October 2017
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Other reference: NLM37524
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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