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Description: | Partially polished flint axehead, with curved blade and slightly convex sides. The polishing is mainly confined to the curved blade end and the sides of the axe, and prominent parts of the body profile; it is largely absent from the rounded butt. Flake scars survive over most of the surface. When viewed end on, the blade edge twists slightly in a shallow reversed S shape, in common with many other examples. The axe is made from an attractive patterned reddish medium brown to cream-coloured flint. It is almost complete; there is a chip at the junction of the blade and one side. The only other (possibly recent) damage is a series of strike marks on the high points of the top half of one face of the axe only; there are no linear plough grazes. This suggests that the axe has only recently been incorporated into the ploughsoil. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Geake, Helen - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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