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SCRAPER (TOOL)
Unique ID: PUBLIC-9CD2C3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Prehistoric flint thumbnail scraper, probably of early Bronze age date. Formed on a secondary flake from a pebble of dark grey/black flint with original cortex remaining over two-thirds of the dorsal face - one third of this face has recortication. It is triangular in plan and D-shaped in profile, with abrupt retouch on two edges, and there is a step-fracture to one of the facets on the dorsal face, at the same end as the striking platform on the ventral face, which suggests that the scraper was worked from both ends.
It is 21.4 long by 18.1mm wide and up to 11.2mm thick, and weighs 4.0g.
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: With finder
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to Landowner
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 2200 BC
Date to: Circa 1000 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 21.4 mm
Width: 18.1 mm
Thickness: 11.2 mm
Weight: 3.98 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st April 2018 - Sunday 1st April 2018
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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: Hinckley and Bosworth (District)
To be known as: Cadeby
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
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