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Lower Palaeolithic Hand Axe
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Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service, Andrew Brown, 2008-12-15 13:42:10
Title
Lower Palaeolithic Hand Axe
Description
English: The butt end of an ovate or pointed hand-axe of Lower Palaeolithic date. The flint is dark grey in colour and has deep medium brown coloured staining on the surfaces and on the breaks, suggesting that the breaks are ancient. It has fine, shallow bifacial flaking on all surfaces leaving just three small areas of cortex visible. There is little evidence of rolling and no evidence of ploughmarks suggesting recent disturbance. The axe measures 96.31mm in length, 79.55mm in width, 30.35mm in thickness, and weighs 221.86g. This fragment is of Lower Palaeolithic date from between c.700,000 and 30,000 BC.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Suffolk
Date between 700000 BC and 30000 BC
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FindID: 239965
Old ref: SF-52A194
Filename: HEP SF-52A194.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/196856
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/196856/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/239965
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