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Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Julian Watters, 2007-05-09 15:53:25
Title
Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe
Description
English: A pointed flint handaxe of Lower Palaeolithic (c. 500,000 - 300,000 BC) date.

The tool has been made from a large flint nodule. At the butt end there remains a portion of the original cortex. The tool tapers upwards from the rounded butt, decreasing gradually in width and thickness towards the rounded point. There are several broad flake removal scars, which radiate downwards and outwards from the butt end, whilst the edges have received much finer retouching. The reverse has less evidence of working, but there are several broad flake removal scars near the butt. The flint is a patinated light yellowish-grey colour.

The implement measures 88.1mm long, 60.1mm wide and 27.1mm thick. The weight is 126.45g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Central Bedfordshire
Date between 500000 BC and 300000 BC
Accession number
FindID: 179635
Old ref: BH-1D9875
Filename: Flint 07 31 - 9.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/137756
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/137756/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/179635
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Object location52° 10′ 11.28″ N, 0° 16′ 38.59″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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