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AXE
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Norfolk County Council, Jason Gibbons, 2021-03-09 16:43:47
Title
AXE
Description
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Complete Mesolithic adze, of off-white patinated flint with spotty iron stains to both faces. Both faces are confidently knapped, creating the dorsal face with steep angles and a slightly meandering medial ridge, the ventral face has been knapped so it is much flatter, giving the adze a sub-triangular section. All flake scars appear to be hard hammer struck, there is a slight asymmetry to the plan view with one lateral edge much straighter than the other.

The broader or the two ends has been sharpened with a "tranchet" flake removal, this has been struck from the side, taking a large flake from the dorsal face and creating a wedge-shaped cutting edge, a typical and diagnostic feature of Mesolithic axes and adzes. 
Depicted place (County of findspot) Norfolk
Date between 10000 BC and 4001 BC
Accession number
FindIdentifier: 1022577
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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/1137058
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1137058/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
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Other versions FindID 1022577 has multiple images: 1134428 1137058 search
Object location52° 50′ 56.4″ N, 1° 01′ 20.86″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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