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Description: | A complete struck / knapped quartzite pointed 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). Though rolling has made it difficult to approximate how much of the surface has been worked.The handaxe has a trapezoidal shape, with a rounded butt and a pointed tip. There is an of center rise on the interior face that begins left of the butt and convexes towards the tip. Visible from the interior face the right side convexes towards the tip, whereas the left side has been knapped relatively straight until about 25 mm from the tip. At which point the edge concaves.The biface has been heavily rolled and as such no clear working marks other than the handaxes overall shape can be seen. Therefore the handaxe can no longer be considered fresh.Length: 103.17 mmWidth: 70.29 mmThickness: 34.98 mmWeight: 293 gReference: 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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