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Description: | Complete flat-butted flint cordate handaxe of Lower Palaeolithic date (500000 BC ? 40000 BC). Length 111mm, width 93mm and 55mm thick. Weight 488g. Bi-facially worked and symmetrical in plan, the implement has been produced on a large flake. The flake has a large striking platform and an indistinct bulb of percussion. The removals cover the whole of the dorsal surface and most of the ventral surface. Orange coloured 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: | -500000
-40000 | 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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