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DENTICULATE
Unique ID: KENT-574F22
Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A possible coarse flint denticulate/scraper hybrid tool likely dating to the late Bronze Age or Iron age c.1000BC - 0BC .
Description: The scraper was produced from a secondary flake, possibly accidentally created. The scraper is semi-circular in plan. Barring the retouch along the curved edge there is little obvious flaking, likely indicating the use of a natural or accidental flake, typical of flint manufacture after the middle Bronze Age. The curved edge has short scaled semi-abrupt retouch producing a scraping edge. At the top edge is a denticulate removal creating an indent with short scaled abrupt retouch. The Flint is mottled light and dark grey and has some off white patination along it.
Measurements: 49.73mm long, 31.31mm wide, 12.06mm thick and 16.83g in weight.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 1000 BC
Date to: Circa
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 49.73 mm
Width: 31.31 mm
Thickness: 12.06 mm
Weight: 16.83 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Thanet (District)
Parish or ward: Westgate-on-Sea (District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TR3269
Four figure Latitude: 51.37263119
Four figure longitude: 1.33197157
1:25K map: TR3269
1:10K map: TR36NW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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