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KNIFE
Unique ID: LEIC-964C0C
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Neolithic flint knife? 34mm long, 27mm wide and 7mm thick with a weight of 6.16g.
The object is sub rectangular in form and cross section. It has a prominent ripple marks and has a patch of corticated surface on part of its dorsal face. It has one straight edge which has short, stepped abrupt re-touch and small patches of re-cortication.
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 2351 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 34 mm
Width: 27 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight: 6.16 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Rutland (Unitary Authority)
District: Rutland (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Braunston-in-Rutland (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK8406
Four figure Latitude: 52.64524501
Four figure longitude: -0.75992888
1:25K map: SK8406
1:10K map: SK80NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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