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840955. Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe
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Somerset County Council, Ciorstaidh Hayward Trevarthen, 2009-07-23 22:33:18
Title
840955. Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe
Description
English: A flint handaxe. A bifacially worked pointed handaxe. It has been made on a secondary tabular nodule. Small areas of abraded cortex remain on both faces. The piece is comparatively heavy-butted and the flaking is crude. There is evidence of both hard and soft hammer percussion. The dark grey flint is thickly patinated and stained to a mid to pale yellow-brown. The inter-scar ridges are worn and as a whole the object is moderately abraded. The edges are blunted and heavily chattered and there are indications of incipient thermal cracks. These details indicate a period of fluvial rolling and post-depositional damage.

Date: Lower Palaeolithic - 500,000 to 40,000 Dimensions:

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Depicted place (County of findspot) Hampshire
Date between 500000 BC and 40000 BC
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FindID: 263862
Old ref: DOR-840955
Filename: 840955.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/217295
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/217295/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/263862
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Object location50° 45′ 37.44″ N, 1° 39′ 24.73″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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