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Description: | Flint axehead, oval in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. The axehead is straight-sided and tapers towards the butt end which has a rounded terminal, where the axehead would have been hafted. Flakes have been taken off on both the dorsal and the ventral faces at the distal end to create the blade, which has then also been polished, but the rest of the axe has been left with its flake scars. There are darkened areas on both faces, where the axehead is polished, which probably represent use-wear, but the recorder was not able to look at the specimen under a microscope to confirm this. All margins have been bifacially retouched, but the left margin of the dorsal face near the proximal end appears to have a slight notch, but this is not matched on the opposite side of the axehead, so may not be intended to improve hafting. The axehead is made of mottled light to mid-grey flint which suggests that it may have been derived from the local flint sources in West Sussex. There is one circular patch of cortex remaining on both the dorsal and ventral faces, but most of this skin has been removed. There are also lines if iron staining which follow the crests of the medial ridges on the dorsal face.In the Royal Institution of Cornwall's collections, there are several similar examples of flint axeheads with polished blades that have been found in Cornwall: TRURI:1911.34 found in St Enoder, TRURI:1933.26 found in Morwenstow and TRURI:1701.39 found in Lelant, which all date from the Neolithic period, c.4500-2500 BC.Bond (2004) illustrates a similar straight-sided axehead with a polished blade end on page 136, Fig.5.123, No.F71, which is dated from the Neolithic period.Butler (2005) illustrates a similar axe from Cissbury in West Sussex on page 140, Fig.57, No.4, which dates from the Neolithic period, and refers to this type of Neolithic flint axe as Type A (thick-butted) on page 143, Fig.59, Nos.1-2.
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