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Description: | Complete but very small flaked flint axehead, with slight polishing. The sides are convex, the butt is rounded and the cross-section is lenticular. The polishing is restricted to the higher areas of each face (very restricted on one face) and the edge of one side only - none is present on the oppsite side or the curved cutting edge at the wider end. The lack of polish on the cutting edge and one side, together with the small size, suggest that the axe may have been cut down from a larger axe, though as the existing polish is close to the unpolished edges there should only have been a relatively small amount of reduction. Mottled medium grey flint with small patches of pale grey, and some dark grey mainly along the polished edge. At least 80% of flint axes are imported into Suffolk; they are typically of non-local flint, usually grey, and analysed examples have been shown to come from the Neolithic flint mines of Sussex as well as from unidentified sources elsewhere (many Neolithic flint mines await discovery). This axe would appear to be an example of an imported axe. No other flint implement types consistently demonstrate a non-local origin, suggesting that axes have a special status or meaning, although examples are frequently much reduced or re-used as a core source.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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