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Description: | An almost complete "sub-cordate" flint handaxe of Palaeolithic date 500,000 BC - 40,000 BC). Length 148.5mm, width 79.2mm and 37.1mm thick. Weight 386.0g.Bi-facially worked and symmetrical in plan, the implement has a pointed tip and a rounded butt. The extreme point of the tip is missing due to an old break. The flake removals cover the whole of both faces. It is slightly "rolled", although this is hardly noticeable and the patination colour on both faces is generally off-white. This implement falls into Wymer's sub-cordate category: Type G (Wymer 1999, 10-11).This implement, a surface find on cultivated land, is in a remarkably good condition.
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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