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Description: | An incomplete struck / knapped quartzite subcordate biface handaxe of Lower and / or Middle Palaeolithic dating (c. 800, 000 BC to c. 40,000 BC).The biface exhibits working on both interior (upper) and exterior (lower) faces, making it a biface handaxe (Graf, A., 2004, 84).Approximately 75% of the surface has been worked, with the original surface or cortex covering the remaining 25% of the surface.The biface is trapezoidal in shape with a thick profile at the butt which thins towards the tip. Though it may have once had a pointed tip. The butt is smooth and the bottom of the interior face is also smooth. The butt has also been hammered flat. The interior face has a pointed rise which begins in a central position and then angles towards the left, finishing at the edge about 3/4 from the butt. Knapping can be seen on both sides of the centrally raised point. Halfway up from the butt on the the external face an errete has been made angled towards the butt. The left edge has been knapped to a roughly straight edge, while the right edge has a concave towards the tip which begins roughly a quarter up from the butt. The handaxe has been slightly rolled smooth but knapping is still visible, with the knapped and hammered areas being a light brown/orange, differentiating from the darker shade of brown/grey of the cortex.Length: 101.56 mmWidth: 77.31 mmThickness: 36.51 mmWeight: 286.2 g.Reference: Graf, A., 2004. 'A cause for wonder: preliminary observations on further Palaeolithic surface finds by Ron Waite from around Nuneaton, Warwickshire'. Lithics - Journal of the Lithic Studies Society. 78-100.
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