Rights Holder: Suffolk County Council
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Unique ID: SF-9291FF
Object type certainty: Certain
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A Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age scraper, dating to 2700-1500 BC. It is a tertiary retouched scraper flint flake, which has been manifactured from a traslucent grey core. The ventral face has subtle ripples and it is slighlty concave. It has a sub-triangular cross-section and a crescent shape in plan. The dorsal face has a longitudinal ridge with long parallel semi-abrupt retouches especially on one side of the ridge. One edge has short abrupt sub parallel retouches.
Length: 38.41 m
Width: 20.42 mm
Thickness at its middle point: 9.14 mm
Weight: 7.96 g
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 2700 BC
Date to: Circa 1500 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 38.41 mm
Width: 20.42 mm
Thickness: 9.14 mm
Weight: 7.96 g
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st August 2018
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Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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