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Description: | "Pointed" flint hand-axe of Lower Palaeolithic date (at least 40,000 years old). Length 124mm, maximum width 77mm and maximum thickness 37mm. Weight 346g.The implement has flaking scars overall and is plano-convex in cross-section. The more convex side is orange/grey patinated, whereas the less convex side is grey/black patinated. The implement is "rolled", that is to say it has become smoothed to a certain extent from movement within its context during the Palaeolthic period. Alternatively, it could have become smooth as a result of its mobility in a recent sea-bed environment.
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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