File:Mesolithic axe or adze (plan, profile and reverse). (FindID 270655).jpg

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Mesolithic axe or adze (plan, profile and reverse).
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Angie Bolton, 2009-10-19 08:59:35
Title
Mesolithic axe or adze (plan, profile and reverse).
Description
English: An unfinished flint or chert tranchet axe of Mesolithic date. The axe is knapped from a heavily patinated flint or chert whose surface is mainly a mottled brown/yellow colour. Where there is recent damage the colour is a mottled light grey. In plan the axe is a sub-oval and is a sub-oval in section. The dorsal and ventral faces are covered with negative flake scars, but there is not a bifacial flake at the blade end, therefore it is considered to be an unfinished axe (Phil Watson pers comm). It measures 101.11mm length, 43.21mm width, and is 23.74mm thick. The fragment weighs 128g. The axe has large rough scars on the dorsal and ventral face. Phil Watson (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery) dates this perform to the Mesolithic period (-8300 to -4500). Butler (Butler, C. 2005 Prehistoric Flintwork Tempus, p.103) illustrates a similar implement and suggests it is either a Mesolithic axe or adze.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Warwickshire
Date between 8300 BC and 4500 BC
Accession number
FindID: 270655
Old ref: WAW-91AC18
Filename: WAW-91AC18.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/225023
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/225023/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/270655
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Object location52° 14′ 39.48″ N, 1° 47′ 22.38″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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