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Palaeolithic handaxe
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Winchester Museum Service, Robert Webley, 2009-07-23 18:20:54
Title
Palaeolithic handaxe
Description
English: A small flint Acheulian handaxe of white/brown flint dating to the Lower Palaeolithic. It has a truncated butt end, and broadly angled sides that taper to a tip. The object has a very shallow S-shaped profile. It is covered by removals, particularly along its edges. One of the faces has been left far less knapped and thus higher than the other, presumably to aid holding. The removals have been smoothed by water action. One side is far whiter, with orange/brown staining towards the tip, the other features a variety of brown colours.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Hampshire
Date between 400000 BC and 180000 BC
Accession number
FindID: 263988
Old ref: HAMP-896CF4
Filename: HAMP-896CF4handaxe.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/217288
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/217288/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/263988
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 25 November 2020)
Object location50° 49′ 41.88″ N, 1° 12′ 06.7″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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