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Description: | A complete struck / knapped quartzite subcordate biface handaxe of Lower and / or Middle Palaeolithic dating (c. 500, 000 BC to c. 150,000 BC).The biface exhibits working on both interior (upper) and exterior (lower) faces, making it a biface handaxe (Graf, A., 2004, 84). Approximately 60% of the surface has been worked, with the original surface or cortex covering the remaining 40% of the surface.The biface has an ovoid shape with a slightly pointed tip and a thick rounded profile. The butt is made of smooth cortex. The interior right side about 1/4 from the butt has been hammed flat, creating a central rise beginning 50 mm from the butt and angled 45 degrees towards the right side; Creating a ridge from the center to the right side of the handaxe. Above this ridge the interior side has been hammered to the tip. The top left side below the tip has also been hammered in. The right side slightly convexes towards the tip, whereas the left side concaves from the cortex butt to 15 mm from the tip. The exterior face is covered in cortex from butt to 1/3 from the tip. The right hand side of the exterior face has been knapped and hammered from about a third from the butt, creating a central rise. An errete has been made from cortex to tip running along the exterior central rise, with either side of the errete having been worked. The biface has been rolled and as such no retouch marks can be seen and the tip has been smoothed. The handaxe can no longer be considered fresh.Length: 122.94 mmWidth: 87.91 mmThickness: 66.18 mmWeight: 704 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.Glossary:Errete: Flake removal resulting in a concave depression.
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