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Description: | A thick butted handaxe dating to the lower Palaeolithic, heavily rolled (a beach find) and re-cortified semi gloss pale yellow-brown. The handaxe weighs 702g and measures 150x 96.43x57.72mm. Possibly originally sub-cordate or sub-pointed (tip may have been broken prior to patination). It was made on a worn nodule with some areas of cortex remaining on the butt. Bifacially worked with soft-hammer and thinned toward tip: some shaping of butt-end. Worn edges show pale grey-brown flint but this may be secondary patination.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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