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Palaeolithic flint handaxe: Obverse and reverse views
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Northamptonshire County Council, Steven Ashby, 2007-07-02 12:15:34
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Palaeolithic flint handaxe: Obverse and reverse views
Description
English: A flint tool (probable hand axe) of probable Lower Palaeolithic date (c. 500 000 -250 000 BC). The tool has suffered post-depositional breakage along one edge, and considerable rolling. The axe is unifacial, and one edge has been tranchet-worked, but it is not a typical hand axe,and its precise character is ambiguous. It has a deep, toffee-brown patina.

The find is typical of the sort of early prehistoric objects found in gravel deposits, but is an unusual find for Northamptonshire. The Palaeolithic, in particular, is poorly represented in both PAS and SMR data.

The handaxe measures 97.4mm long (along its central axis), 61.9mm wide (maximum breadth), and 31.6mm thick (maximum dorso-ventral distance). It weighs 161g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Northamptonshire
Date between 500000 BC and 2500 BC
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FindID: 184683
Old ref: NARC-FD1537
Filename: NARC-FD1537-ian giggins flint.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/143172
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/143172/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/184683
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Object location52° 11′ 06.36″ N, 0° 58′ 09.91″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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