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Lower Palaeolithic: Flint handaxe
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Teresa Gilmore, 2013-07-02 13:57:12
Title
Lower Palaeolithic: Flint handaxe
Description
English: A complete struck / knapped flint naviform handaxe of Lower and / or Middle Palaeolithic dating (c. 800, 000 BC to c. 40,000 BC)

The handaxe exhibits working on both dorsal (upper) and ventral (lower) faces, making it a biface handaxe (Debenath. A and Dibble, H. L.,1994, 126). Approximately 85% of the surface has been worked, with the original surface or cortex covering the remaining 15% of the surface.

The biface has a rhomboid shape with a thick butt in profile which thins towards the tip and is a cream/yellow colour. On the dorsal side, roughly central about 20 mm from the butt, the bulb of percussion can be seen. The striking platform is most probably to the bottom left of the bulb of percussion. The butt is curved on the right dorsal side, the other side has been hammered flat and from a third of the way up the sides have been straightened to create a point. The left is slightly convexed and the right slightly concave towards the tip. Just above and to the left of the hammered flat butt a further hammering has been done. Above the bulb of percussion an errete, about 15 mm wide and 20 mm long, wide has been made running towards the tip. The cortex itself is light brown and is situated towards the middle of the handaxe. Knapping marks can be seen on both edges. The handaxe is not fresh but however has had minimal edge and tip damage due to rolling.

Length: 107.21 mm
Width: 69.90 mm
Thickness: 42.16 mm
Weight: 258.4 g

Reference: Debenath, A and Dibble, H.L., 1994. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Staffordshire
Date between 800000 BC and 40001 BC
Accession number
FindID: 567625
Old ref: WMID-2CD9C1
Filename: WMID-2CD9C1.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/431714
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/431714/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/567625
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Object location52° 37′ 15.96″ N, 1° 43′ 51.89″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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