File:Tranchet Axehead. (FindID 816853).jpg

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Tranchet Axehead.
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Lucy Bevan, 2016-11-28 11:54:57
Title
Tranchet Axehead.
Description
English: A tranchet axe with an irregular, variable cross-section, made on a naturally fractured, weathered nodule of mottled opaque pale grey flint. The piece is crudely bifacially flaked, one face retains a substantial area of thick weathered cortex, the other is flaked all over. The sharp cutting edge is formed by oblique removal of a small 'tranchet' flake. Unusually, the butt end is also sharp and may have been reworked to form an alternative cutting edge, also by oblique flake removals on both faces.

The margins are irregular and show evidence of deliberate battering to blunt them. The exposed surfaces are pale grey and high gloss to mid gloss patina, except on one face where off-white recortication of the naturally fractured surface is evident.

Date: Late Mesolithic.

Dimensions: 168mm x 57.6mm x 38.5mm.

Weight: 420g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Dorset
Date between 7000 BC and 4000 BC
Accession number
FindID: 816853
Old ref: DOR-C129AA
Filename: DORC129AA.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/592142
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/592142/recordtype/artefacts
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/816853
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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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