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Mesolithic Tranchet Axe
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North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, 2017-07-27 14:56:46
Title
Mesolithic Tranchet Axe
Description
English: Pale grey flint with cortex spot, possible tranchet axe. A thick oval flake of roughly oval section with covering hard hammer working overall, and with an angled end which may indicate sharpening by oblique removal of a single flake. The same end is ridged by battering immediately below this site. The object was formed by hard hammer removal of large flakes from the dorsal side, and bears parallel broad flake removal scars on the ventral surface, most clearly visible on one side of a notional longitudinal centre line. One side is flat, probably from a single hard hammer strike during this initial working. The object is lightly iron stained and it is possible that some conchoidal fractures have arisen fortuitously from rolling in gravels after the deposition of the object. Suggested date: Early Mesolithic, 10,000-7000 BC.

Length: 76.9mm, Width: 43.9mm, Thickness: 19.2mm, Weight: 82.78gms
Depicted place (County of findspot) North Lincolnshire
Date between 10000 BC and 7000 BC
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FindID: 858396
Old ref: NLM-9BF99F
Filename: NLM36686.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/623635
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/623635/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/858396
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Object location53° 29′ 25.44″ N, 0° 51′ 05.09″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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