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Description: | A very large flint axe head, dating from the Neolithic period (4000-2100 BC). The axehead has been fashioned from a single flint nodule and retains cortex on both the dorsal and ventral surfaces as well as the proximal end. There are flaked removals over all surfaces and the distal end, or tip of the axe has been flaked clean of cortex. The tip and one edge of the axe bears evidence of rolling or bashing, probably due to post-depostional damage. Alison Roberts of the Ashmolean Museum has suggested that this may be an incomplete axehead, known as a 'roughout', and was lost or discarded before completion, although it is also possible that the axehead was ad-hoc and utilitarian and was discarded after serving its purpose, and wasn't intended for retention. The flaking technique suggests a general later prehistoric date, probably dating to the Neolithic period.
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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