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DISCOIDAL KNIFE
Unique ID: NMS-9633C6
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Tertiary, hard hammer struck flake, of unpatinated slightly mottled dark grey flint of good quality, struck from a prepared core with semi-centripetal, over-lapping invasive flake scars to the rather flat dorsal face. The bulb of percussion has been removed transversely by very steep retouch struck from the dorsal face, all edges appear to have been damaged recently. Likely to be a unifacial variation of the discoidal knife. Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 3000 BC
Date to: Circa 1501 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 48 mm
Width: 44 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight: 23 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 12th June 2018 - Monday 9th July 2018
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 1137
Other reference: KLMD072018
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Hunstanton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF6942
Four figure Latitude: 52.94876533
Four figure longitude: 0.51396233
1:25K map: TF6942
1:10K map: TF64SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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