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Unique ID: HESH-2275A8
Object type certainty: Certain
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A mottled mid grey coloured core rejuvination flake of later Mesolithic date. In form the flint is blade like with a crested shaped profile. The ventral face has a bulb of percussion and chonchoidal ripples - a clear knapping platform is present. The dorsal face has a series of parallel sided blade scars extending in multiple directions. This suggests that the core from which this blade was struck had been previously worked in at least two opposing directions - with it being turned twice through 45 degrees to allow for additional blade removals. There is no retouch present and this blade should be best considered as debitage / waste. In form the blade is similarly shaped to a scaline point - although is at least 3 times larger than traditionally reported.
The blade measures: Length: 38.01mm, Width: 15.11mm, Thickness: 5.11mm, Weight: 2.8 grams
Class: Rejuvenation flake
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Period to: MESOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4500 BC
Date to: Circa 3500 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 38.01 mm
Width: 15.11 mm
Thickness: 5.11 mm
Weight: 2.8 g
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Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SO4258
Four figure Latitude: 52.2171443
Four figure longitude: -2.85037379
1:25K map: SO4258
1:10K map: SO45NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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