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Description: | A complete struck / knapped quartzite backed knife (handaxe variant) on a transverse flake 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). 100% of the surface has been worked, with none of the original surface or cortex remaining.This biface has a curved oval/egg shape, the tip being more pointed than the butt, with a thick curved profile. Both tip and butt are curved. The interior side has a central rise which has two erretes on either side running along the edges from the handaxes middle point stopping about 51mm apart at the tip. An errete runs along the edge from the middle to the butt and a further arrete is parallel to the right of this stopping just before the middle point. Both edges have been knapped but are abraded and therefore have edge damage. The handaxe is not fresh and has been damaged by rolling. The handaxe is a yellow/brown where it has been worked, with a dark brown speckled with yellow/brown ventral side. The central rise on the interior side is also dark brown speckled with yellow/brown.Length: 114.33 mmWidth: 81.62 mmThickness: 40.32 mmWeight: 461.7 g.Glossary:Errete: Flake removal resulting in a concave depression.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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