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Description: | Flaked flint axe, or more accurately, adze. Roughly flaked from a poor quality, opaque, mixed grey flint with small area of original cortex and a crystal filled cavity. Partial recortication.Keeled section with a convex lower face from which the two converging faces were flaked. Less coarse, emi-abrupt, scaled flaking was carried out around the curved cutting edge and the crest of the keel is battered, This object has the characteristics of a Mesolithic 'Hassock's adze' (Butler, 2005, 103, Fig. 42). Length 208mm, Width 55mm, Thickness 51mm, Mass 715.6g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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