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Description: | An incomplete polished flint axehead re-used as a hammer. Neolithic (3500 BC - 2100 BC). Length: 138.6mm, width: 50.3mm and 29.7mm thick. Weight: 236.74g.This slender axehead has been knapped and then polished. However, numerous flaking scars are still present and have not been fully polished. The butt end, which has a width of about 31.0mm, has recent damage which appears to have been caused by agricultural activity. The cutting edge is missing due to an old curving oblique break.From the butt the sides flare outwards and downwards to the oblique break. At one side, close to this end, there is a long columnar fracture which has a dull surface and appears to be recent. The edges have been are characteristically flattened by polishing.The surface of the oblique break has numerous percussion fractures that were created when the implement was reused as a hammer. However, at each of the narrow ends, the surface of the break is still visible where it is not covered with percussion marks.The implement has a mid grey and cream coloured mottled surface.
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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