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Description: | A flaked flint tranchet adze or axehead. It is 135mm in length, 38mm wide and has a thickness of 30mm maximum. It is complete apart from one thin flake off one face of the blade edge ( which may be recent). It is plano-convex in form and its underside is only slightly convex, the upperside is quite high and markedly convex. The butt half is almost triangular in section with one sharp edge and one square edge. Both the cutting edge and the butt have one face with radial flake scars and the other with transverse tranchet flakes. Many large flakes have been removed from the body of the axe. The flint is relatively poor in quality and has patches that are very coarse. It has a patchy patination of pale and medium greys. The recent flake reveals a dark grey flint under the patination. It is most likely to be Mesolithic in date. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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