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SCRAPER (TOOL)
Unique ID: KENT-A0FDC3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
irregular flint thumb-nail scraper possibly of Mesolithic date (c.9000-4000 BC).
Description: The scraper is irregular shaped, with one rounded end and one slightly pointed shouldered end. It is formed from a heavily retouched primary flake. The flaking along both facing edges, the bulb of percussion and conchoidal scarring (rippling) on the ventral face is very pronounced which suggest hard hammer technology. The majority of the edges have invasive, scaled semi-abrupt retouch struck from the dorsal faces. The shouldered edge starting from where it goes inwards has rough retouch along it partially creating a borer point on the shoulder. The flint is an semi-translucent dark grey-brown with light brown edges, the ventral face has some light brown cortex patches.
Measurements: 36.90mm long. 31.91mm wide, 12.41mm thick and 11.6g in weight.
Discussion: Thumbnail scrapers are usually associated with the transition between the Neolithic to the Bronze Age however some crude examples, such as this example with its cortex still in evidence are associated with the Mesolithic.
Class: Thumb-nail scraper
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MESOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 9000 BC
Date to: Circa 4000 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 36.9 mm
Width: 31.91 mm
Thickness: 12.41 mm
Weight: 11.6 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Canterbury (District)
Parish or ward: Harbledown and Rough Common (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TR1158
Four figure Latitude: 51.28204663
Four figure longitude: 1.02421091
1:25K map: TR1158
1:10K map: TR15NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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