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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. 250,000 BC).The biface exhibits working on both interior (upper) and exterior (lower) faces, making it a biface handaxe (Graf, A., 2004, 84). Approximately 40% of the surface has been worked, with the original surface or cortex covering the remaining 60% of the surface.The biface has an ovoid shape with a slight point at the tip, with a rounded thick profile which thins at the tip. The butt is smooth, rounded and made of cortex. The cortex itself is dark brown in colour and extends to about half way up the biface on the exterior side, concaving towards the butt. On the interior face the cortex forms a slightly off center ridge, which begins at the handaxes midpoint and finishes just left of the tip. The right of the central rise has been heavily knapped and hammered, creating an indent. The interior left side has been knapped to an edge. the right side of the exterior face is a relatively straight edge from cortex to tip, that has been knapped and retouched. The Left exterior edge is also relatively straight but from about 3/4 from the butt the edge curves towards the tip. The handaxe has been rolled and can not be considered fresh, though faint working marks are apparent.Length: 135 mmWidth: 72.43 mmThickness: 45.02 mmWeight: 556 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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