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Description: | A tranchet flint axehead. Relatively small with crude, unfashioned cortex on the butt and almost 50 % of the 'upper face' is also covered in cortex. The axehead is roughly plano-convex in cross-section. The cutting edge consists of tranchet flakes on both faces. The flint si pale/medium to dark grey with a few small iron grazes on the surface. This axehead measures 114mm in length, 50mm in width and 28mm in thickness. It is Mesolithic in date. | Subjects: | axehead | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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