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Description: | Incomplete chipped and ground flint axe-head of Neolithic date (4500 BC ? 2000 BC). Length 105mm, width 49mm and 22mm thick. Weight 131.22g. The implement is made of flint which closely resembles chert. It is small and slender and is chipped and partially ground. A small area on one edge appears to be the surface of a natural fracture that existed prior to the flint having been knapped. The butt is incomplete and has an old oblique break. At this break, the width of the axe-head is about 30mm. The sides flare outwards and downwards before turning inwards to form the curving cutting edge which is 49mm in width. On one side of the cutting edge there is an old fracture. The implement has a mottled brownish buff patina overall. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | -4500
-2000 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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