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BURIN
Unique ID: LEIC-988BF6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Palaeolithic (Upper) to Neolithic (Later) truncation burin, 55mm long, 22mm wide, 9mm thick and 11.6g in weight. Made on an opaque caramel brown chert. Burin truncations were attempted at both ends. Failed attempt at proximal end as it plunged. Also has been semi-abruptly retouched to form a scraper.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
Period from: PALAEOLITHIC
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 40000 BC
Date to: Exactly 2351 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 55 mm
Width: 22 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight: 11.6 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Stone
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Melton (District)
Parish or ward: Scalford (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK7625
Four figure Latitude: 52.81719198
Four figure longitude: -0.87375008
1:25K map: SK7625
1:10K map: SK72NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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