File:AXE (FindID 1023375-1139120).jpg

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AXE
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Norfolk County Council, Jason Gibbons, 2021-03-22 16:47:18
Title
AXE
Description
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Approximately 2/3rds of a fully ground and polished flint axe with a few remnants of deep flake scars remaining visible in the surface: - of patinated white flint with rusty iron scrapes from agricultural machinery, the coarse inclusions within the flint appearing pale grey. The cutting edge has broken transversely in antiquity probably from use, leaving the usual "plunging" flake scar to one face from the force of the break, there appears to be an unsuccessful attempt to reshape this edge; several short and hinging flakes have been struck, but the awkward angles have prevented any useful flakes being removed. The butt is also damaged by successive removals of flakes, this may have been from attempts to remove the axehead from its haft during its lifetime. The only recent damage to this axe (apart from the iron scrapes) is a small loss to the old break, this shows the original colour of the flint to have been dark grey.

Neolithic, 4,000 to 2,350 BC.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Essex
Date between 4000 BC and 2351 BC
Accession number
FindIdentifier: 1023375
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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/1139120
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1139120/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
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Other versions FindID 1023375 has multiple images: 1139120 1139121 1139122 1139123 1139125 search
Object location52° 01′ 19.56″ N, 0° 09′ 00.41″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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