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Description: | Mid to dark greyish brown.
Hammer-stone. The upper end of the handle has been shaped into a somehwat assymetric handle. The tool has been worked by striking off large flakes from one face, making the sides rather thick and steep. The rear face is rather flat. A somewhat sharp longitudinal edge runs down the middle of the tool.
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.526461 | Go to resource |
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