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Description: | An incomplete and reworked polished flint axe of Neolithic date. It is rectangular in form, pointed oval in section and struck from a pale, mottled grey to white flint. Areas of polishing remain visible on both faces and along one edge, but the original object has been subject to extensive bifacial retouch and flake removal, particularly at the crescentic cutting edge, resulting in an object that is probably less than half the length of the original axe. It has perhaps been re-used as a relatively crude axe or alternatively reworked as a core. The entire object measures 82.69mm in length, 58.50mm in width, 34.69mm in thickness and 199.88g in weight. This axe is of Neolithic date, c.3500-2100 BC.
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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