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SCRAPER (TOOL)
Unique ID: PUBLIC-A8E129
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Brown flint scraper. A sub-rectangular shaped flint. Short broad and narrow flakes have been struck from the dorsal side. The slightly concave ventral surface is smooth apart from a prominent bulb of percussion at the left proximal end with shallow ripples of percussion emanating from this. There is semi-abrupt retouch to all edges and further semi-abrupt retouch executed to the left mesal of the dorsal side forms a notch, perhaps to serve as a tool to trim an arrow shaft. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000 - 4000 BC.
Length: 49.0mm, width: 25.1mm and thickness: 11.8mm. Weight 12.0g.
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 mm
Width: 25.1 mm
Thickness: 11.8 mm
Weight: 12 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 15th December 2017
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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: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
District: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Cottam (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE9767
Four figure Latitude: 54.0897776
Four figure longitude: -0.51849661
1:25K map: SE9767
1:10K map: SE96NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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