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Description: | Light brown.
Hammer-stone. The upper end of the tool has been shaped into a handle. The rest of the tool has been shaped by striking off large flakes from one face, making the sides rather thick and steep. The rear face is fairly flat.
Dr. H. O. Forbes categorises the group of tools 705 A-E as clod-breakers, quarrying tools and "truncheons". W. M. F. Petrie also has suggested quarrying tools.
Item has been categorised with a Predynastic Period production date, but the note relating to this group of tools says:-
'Opinions as to date:
Forbes - XIIth Dynasty, some possibly IVth Dynasty: but possibly also some much later than XIIth.
Petrie - Prehistoric'
Material: Stone
Material: Flint | Source: | Manchester Museum | Identifier: | mm.emu.ecatalogue.humanities.526457 | Go to resource |
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