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FLAKE
Unique ID: LVPL-77D1A1
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Dark grey flint flake with broad striking platform and prominent bulb of percussion and bulbar scar, suggesting removal from a large flint nodule with a hard hammer such as a pebble. The flint is good quality and may most likely be of river gravel origin. The flake has been broken laterally and the irregular damage along the upper left hand side may be natural post-depositional damage rather than through use, although the latter is not impossible particularly if the lateral break to the flake was deliberate, although there is no way of knowing whether this was the case.
This is distinct from all the other pieces and implies a more formal knapping technology that would be associated with an early Bronze Age or late Neolithic assemblage
Ron Cowell, Curator of Prehistoric Archaeology, Museum of Liverpool.
Notes:
Other flints recorded from this assemblage include LVPL-77BC1B and LVPL-77A135
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
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 37 mm
Width: 31 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight: 9 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 2017 - Saturday 21st October 2017
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial data
No spatial data available.
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