File:Mesolithic tranchet axehead. (FindID 840860).jpg

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Mesolithic tranchet axehead.
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Lucy Bevan, 2017-05-05 13:33:59
Title
Mesolithic tranchet axehead.
Description
English: A complete tranchet axehead. The axehead is small and irregular. It has a broadly trapezoidal cross section and is crudely parallel sided, tapering to a blunt point at the butt end. Both faces are formed by irregular steep to semi-invasive flaking and the edges are of irregular 'zig-zag' form with only slight battering. The cutting edge is steeply profiled and both offset from, and angled to, the main axis of the axe. Both faces show cross-body, covering flakes, one of which has only partially traversed the axe. Made on light grey mottled flint; an area of worn chalky cortex remains on one face and edge near the butt. Surfaces have a variable glossy thin white patina, more so toward the cutting end of the axe. There are sporadic red-brown ferrous stains all over, primarily along flake scar ridges.

Date: Mesolithic - 10000 to 4000BC.

Dimensions: 97mm x 41.5mm x 30mm.

Weight: 153g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Dorset
Date between 10000 BC and 4000 BC
Accession number
FindID: 840860
Old ref: DOR-39CF58
Filename: DOR39CF58.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/613746
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/613746/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/840860
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 22 November 2020)
Object location50° 49′ 39.36″ N, 2° 06′ 39.6″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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