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SCRAPER (TOOL)
Unique ID: SF-EFE16D
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A knapped flint scraper of the Bronze Age period, dating from 2500-1000 BC. It has been manufactured on a secondary flake of a light grey flint. It is D-shaped in plan and it still bears a large part of the greyish beige cortex on the dorsal face, while the ventral face is slightly convex with ripples and bulbar scar. The curved edges of the dorsal face have semi-abrupt short scaled retouche.
Length 41.29 mm
Width: 60,75 mm
Thickness at the centre: 17.81 mm
Weight: 45.13 g
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa AD 2500
Date to: Circa AD 1000
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 41.29 mm
Width: 60.75 mm
Thickness: 17.81 mm
Weight: 45.13 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 19th October 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Finder's reference: no. 375 T
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: South Norfolk (District)
To be known as: Trowse with Newton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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