Rights Holder: North Lincolnshire Museum
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Unique ID: NLM-4956E8
Object type certainty: Certain
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Grey flint, appearing brown under transmitted light, scraper. A tiny chip with broad parallel flakes struck from its dorsal side and with a bulb at one end of the ventral surface. Initially identified as a fragment of debitage, the magnified view obtained by photographic manipulation for presentation here reveals very short abrupt retouch executed from the dorsal aspect following the curved end. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC
Length: 14.8mm, Width: 14.7mm, Thickness: 3.6mm, Weight: 1.07gms
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MESOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 7000 BC
Date to: Circa 4000 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 14.8 mm
Width: 14.7 mm
Thickness: 3.6 mm
Weight: 1.07 g
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 12th November 2018
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Other reference: NLM41092
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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