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THUMB NAIL SCRAPER
Unique ID: LEIC-8F3B2B
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Late Neolithic to early Bronze Age flint thumbnail scraper, dating to 2700-1601BC. 27mm in length, 25mm wide and 9mm thick with a weight of 6.46grams. The object is circular in form and semi-circular in cross section. It has a clear bulb of percussion and a thick layer of orginal cortication on its worked side. It has short, stepped, abrupt re-touch running around its shorter curved edge (far right as shown).
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 2700 BC
Date to: Circa 1601 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 27 mm
Width: 25 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight: 12.46 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: Rutland (Unitary Authority)
District: Rutland (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Whissendine (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK8112
Four figure Latitude: 52.69962678
Four figure longitude: -0.80278468
1:25K map: SK8112
1:10K map: SK81SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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