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Mesolithic tranchet axe
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Kevin Leahy, 2015-06-12 22:58:07
Title
Mesolithic tranchet axe
Description
English: Mesolithic tranchet axe made from a flint nodule, cortex present on one end and on a small area of the side, the other surfaces are covered by light recortication, over an opaque, grey, flint. The general section is lozenge shaped, the flaking is coarse, bifacial flaking. The cutting edge appears damaged but was formed by the removal of single flakes on both faces; the eponymous 'tranchet' flakes. There is a narrowing of the axe around its mid-point which forms a waist. A Mesolithic date seems likely. Length 158mm, Width 50mm, Thickness 42mm, Mass 387.4g
Depicted place (County of findspot) East Sussex
Date between 9000 BC and 4000 BC
Accession number
FindID: 727069
Old ref: FAKL-B34380
Filename: aIF161.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/521287
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/521287/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/727069
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 1 December 2020)
Object location50° 50′ 32.64″ N, 0° 01′ 19.33″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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