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SCRAPER (TOOL)
Unique ID: NLM-22A8F3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Grey flint with atypically thick cortex scraper. A thick sub-rectangular flake trimmed on one long side by hard hammer strike, with a bulb at the butt end of the ventral surface, and with short abrupt retouch executed from the dorsal aspect following its curving end. The trimming of the side may have been after the retouch, though the extent of light misty patina on all struck surfaces suggests this damage was incurred in antiquity and before the deposition of the object. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2350 BC.
Length: 41.2mm, Width: 31.2mm, Thickness: 11.8mm, Weight: 27.09gms
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 2350 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 41.2 mm
Width: 31.2 mm
Thickness: 11.8 mm
Weight: 27.09 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 5th June 2018
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM39540
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Uncertain
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Swinhope
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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