English: Complete flint Mesolithic tranchet axe/adze. Hazel Martingell notes that the axe measures 110mm long, 40mm wide and 25mm thick. It weighs 140.15g. It is made on good quality grey flint. The knapping technique consists of precise flake removals with very little edge trimming. The axe/adze was recovered from just under the top soil, within the area of a bronze Age ring ditch.

 Hazel Martingell further comments:
 The presence of large diagnostic flint artefacts on a site is always of interest. Usually, it is accepted that they are indicators of people utilising that location during a particular period in prehistory. But it is also possible, that later peoples recover these artefacts from elsewhere and bring them back for their own use. At this site however, there are additional finds of smaller worked flints of Mesolithic, Neolithic and later activity at the site.
 
 Close by at an Iron Age site, a Mesolithic rod microlith was recovered in 2005. Microliths of the obliquely backed variety have also been found at nearby Halstead and Ford Street. There are many more finds of Neolithic flint artefacts, axes turn up singly or within groups of smaller artefacts, as at Fordham.
 

These other sites, here referred to, are also in river valley locations, beside the river. It should be born in mind, that in the past, they would have been liable to flooding, or the river may even have changed course, so we could be looking at seasonal use rather than permanent habitation during the Mesolithic and Neolithic at this site.