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[edit]| Early Palaeolithic Handaxe | |||
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Norfolk County Council, Mary Chester-Kadwell, 2013-04-16 12:18:00 |
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| Title |
Early Palaeolithic Handaxe |
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| Description |
English: Very slim handaxe with an impressive white porous patination with some small areas of spotty iron staining. It is largely complete apart from a few recent chips revealing that it is made from pale grey flint. The tool is also slightly rolled. The profile towards the butt is plano-convex, which suggests that it is made from a large flake or a naturally fractured portion of a larger nodule. The convex face of the butt has a large hollow with thin weathered cortex inside, a renmant of the flake's irregular dorsal surface.
Handaxes are the type tool of the Lower Palaeolithic period (c.600,000 - c.100,000 years before present, when Britain, as part of Europe, was inhabited sporadically when climatic conditions were suitable. It is generally considered that handaxes were primarily butchery tools. 145 x 60 x 25.5mm. n.b. returned to informant rather than to finder who remains anonymous. |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Norfolk | ||
| Date | between 600000 BC and 100000 BC | ||
| Accession number |
FindID: 553372 Old ref: NMS-C1BBA7 Filename: 58393_C1BBA7_PAL_Handaxe.jpg |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/423530 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/423530/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/553372 |
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