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Mesolithic tranchet adze
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Kevin Leahy, 2015-07-24 17:07:48
Title
Mesolithic tranchet adze
Description
English: Probable tranchet axe, or adze head, No recortication. poor quality flint, opaque, mottled mixed grey with surviving cortex near the butt on both faces . Bifacial flaking producing an asymmetrical section, one face keeled, the other convex. The cutting edge has been sharpened with the eponymous trachet flake. Both edges of the axe are battered. Mesolithic. Length 157mm, Width 53mm, Thickness 33mm, Mass 329.5g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) East Sussex
Date between 9000 BC and 4000 BC
Accession number
FindID: 733770
Old ref: FAKL-262848
Filename: aIF277.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/526196
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/526196/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/733770
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Object location50° 46′ 42.24″ N, 0° 06′ 36.01″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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