Rights Holder: Birmingham Museums Trust
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Unique ID: HESH-238B88
Object type certainty: Certain
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An abraded secondary debitage waste flake of probable later Neolithic date (4500-2500 BC) which has been utilised to form a very crude scraper. The flake is broadly oval shape in plan with a wedge shaped cross section. The retouch has been applied tot he curved original long edge on the dorsal face only and is best described as short, sub-parallel and semi-abrupt. The flint is a mid-grey colour. It is likely that this secondary retouch is applied to utilise a waste flake and discarded shortly after creation.
The Object measures:
Length: 31.12mm, Width: 19.10mm, Thickness: 4.62mm, Weight: 2.5 grams
Class:
secondary
Sub class: retouched
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 2500 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 31.12 mm
Width: 19.1 mm
Thickness: 4.62 mm
Weight: 2.5 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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