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DEBITAGE
Unique ID: NLM-32E5B3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Dark chocolate brown flint of good quality with cortex; debitage. Flake with broad parallel flakes struck from its dorsal side and with a concave ventral surface with a bulb at its narrower end. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC.
Length: 49.8mm, Width: 32.5mm, Thickness: 9.4mm, Weight: 16.80gms
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MESOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 7000 BC
Date to: Circa 4000 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 49.8 mm
Width: 32.5 mm
Thickness: 9.4 mm
Weight: 16.8 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 16th October 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM37717
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Barnetby le Wold
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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