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Description: | A Neolithic polished flint axehead which has been broken widthways and then reworked. The axe dates from between circa 3500 BC to 2100 BC. The surviving part of the axe is the larger butt end of the tool. The butt end is rounded, with straight sides and the break is also straight - widthways. The break has also formed a hinge fracture. The axehead looks as if it has been extensively polished in its earlier use, but when it broke it looks as if it has been reworked, as it has also been extensively knapped. A small piece of cortex is still visible, possibly suggesting that the polished tool was never finished and they turned it into another tool, perhaps after it broke. There are also a number of flaws and cracks in the surface of the flint. The rounded butt end of the axe has been finely knapped, to form a sharp and precise cutting edge. The flint is a light whitish-grey colour, with patches of other colours within the make up of the flint. This tool would have been a very large axe, had it not broken.
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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