File:Lower Palaeolithic handaxe (FindID 269763).jpg

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Lower Palaeolithic handaxe
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Winchester Museum Service, Robert Webley, 2009-09-21 19:44:36
Title
Lower Palaeolithic handaxe
Description
English: A fairly large flint Acheulian handaxe of stained white-grey flint dating to the Lower Palaeolithic. It is of an elongated pointed form, approaching the ficron form without truly attaining it; the transition from the butt to the blade is gradual, both in terms of the object narrowing and thinning. The object has fairly straight, slightly battered edges. It is covered by removals which have been somewhat smoothed by water action. The butt end is fairly rounded, thick and fairly symmetrical. There is a rather deep loss on one face perhaps due to a flaw in the flint. On the opposite side of the other face small patch of cortex has been allowed to remain. Large areas of white patination have been stained orange by iron, with some areas of underlying dark grey showing through in places.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Hampshire
Date between 500000 BC and 180000 BC
Accession number
FindID: 269763
Old ref: HAMP-7A3C15
Filename: HAMP-7A3C15handaxe.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/222302
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/222302/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/269763
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 23 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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