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Description: | Axe or Adze. Light brown. No. 27, N. Class 6a (or 7a?)
An axe with one face flaked all over and the other worked only on the edges. The cutting edge has steeper trimming than the other edges, which makes it somewhat hollow. Unless this was due to unintentional breaking during use it is quite possible that the tool has been used as an adze. It appears also that the tool has actually been fashioned out of an earlier tool (or chipped nodule) which was somewhat wind-worn. However, this may have been, the second series of flaking which was responsible for the manufacture of the axe is quite fresh and shows no signs of wind or sand blasting.
Armant cemeteries Areas 1000 & 1100. Unstratified, AR31, 1100.
Material: Stone
Material: Chert | Source: | Manchester Museum | Identifier: | mm.emu.ecatalogue.humanities.521356 | Go to resource |
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