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Unique ID: DOR-9598AA
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete flint leaf shaped arrowhead. It is slightly ogival with a slightly rounded proximal end. It has some modern edge damage to one lower corner. One face shows invasive scaled, low-angle pressure flaking, with some of the original dorsal surface remaining. The other face shows covering scaled, low angle pressure flaking. The area of modern damage reveals the flint is opaque, mid-orangey brown, but is now almost completely covered in a smooth layer of blue-white mottled re-cortification giving a low-gloss patina. One face shows a patch of ferrous iron staining.
Date: Early Neolithic 4000 BC to 3300 BC.
Dimensions: 40.1 mm x 25.9 mm x 4.38 mm.
Weight: 3.73 g
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 3300 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 40.1 mm
Width: 25.9 mm
Thickness: 4.4 mm
Weight: 3.73 g
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st January 1973 - Monday 31st December 1973
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Other reference: SCMS 017826
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: SU5834
Four figure Latitude: 51.10237655
Four figure longitude: -1.1730029
1:25K map: SU5834
1:10K map: SU53SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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