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Unique ID: SF-485357
Object type certainty: Certain
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A flint scraper of the Neolithic period, dating to 2500-1500 BC. It is a tertiary flake, which has been manufactured from a brownish grey flint core. It is D-shaped in plan and slighlty pointed oval in longitudinal cross-section.The ventral face has a bulb of percussion along the straight edge, which is the striking platform. The dorsal face has a central recess adjacent to the straight edge; the curved edge opposite the striking platform has short, sub-parallel and abrupt retouches. The sides of the scraper has crude and more spaced short scaled abrupt retouches.
Length: 50.67mm
Width: 42.03mm
Max thickness (at the straight edge): 16.74mm
Min thickness: 6.75mm
Weight: 37.02g
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 2500 BC
Date to: Circa 1500 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 50.67 mm
Width: 42.03 mm
Thickness: 16.74 mm
Weight: 37.02 g
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 2nd November 2019
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Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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