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SCRAPER (TOOL)
Unique ID: LEIC-388674
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Early Neolithic flint end scraper, 45mm long, 45mm wide and 11mm thick with a weight of 27g.
The scraper is sub circular in form with lght brownish grey opaque patina and has abrupt stepped re touch along one edge.
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 2701 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 45 mm
Width: 45 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight: 27 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
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: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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