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CORE
Unique ID: NLM-11DA0B
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Grey-green flint, banded with grey, with cortex; core fragment. A chunk with an oblique ventral surface which may show where it has split from a larger core. On the original dorsal surface long narrow parallel flake removal scars indicate unidirectional working from a now-lost striking platform. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC.
Height: 36.7mm, Width: 27.5mm, Thickness: 15.5mm, Weight: 11.85gms
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
Height: 36.7 mm
Width: 27.5 mm
Thickness: 15.5 mm
Weight: 11.85 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 22nd February 2018
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM38828
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Bishop Norton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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