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Description: | A flint core tool. A flaked axehead. Mid grey and off-white patchy flint retaining the base of the cortex on one face. The flint areas have a glossy patina and there is some iron staining, particularily on the area of cortex. The axe has a lozenge-shaped profile with a slight mid rib on both faces as a result of transverse soft hammer flaking along both faces of the long edges.The butt of the axe is also flaked. The cutting edge is damaged, but there is a possible transverse flake.Date: Possible Late Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - c. 6500 BC - 2900 BCThe remnant transverse flake may be evidence of a tranchet sharpening flake which could identify this as a tranchet axe of Late Mesolithic date, but the overall proportions and flaking of the axe are more like those of Neolithic flaked axes.
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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