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BLADE
Unique ID: LEIC-44231A
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Neolithic (Early) to Bronze Age (Later) notched piece, 31mm long, 12mm wide, 5mm thick and 1.8g in weight. Made on a small broken blade on mid brown translucent flint that has started to darken through patination. Notched area is on the right lateral edge near the proximal end. The dorsal face retains some cortex and the butt was prepared, although it looks as though this piece was soft hammer struck.
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Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 501 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 31 mm
Width: 12 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight: 1.8 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
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
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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