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Paleolithic hand axe (both sides)
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Norfolk County Council, Ellen Bales, 2005-07-26 09:23:58
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Paleolithic hand axe (both sides)
Description
English: Lower Paleolithic Flint handaxe (dimensions 117 x 78 x 32mm) Cordate handaxe, with almost plano-convex section, in black flint (as shown by minor recent damage) with strongly contrasting patinations on the two faces - the convex face is patinated and stained brown, the almost flat face has a marked cream and pale grey patina ("toad belly"). Both faces are finished by shallow invasive flaking (soft hammer), with the planar face also having almost continuous finer edge retouch, in places giving a step-flaked edge. Lower Palaeolithic (700,000 - 180,000 years before present).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Norfolk
Date between 5000000 BC and 180000 BC
Accession number
FindID: 102443
Old ref: NMS-607607
Filename: KLMD May 05 5 and 6 copy.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/70106
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/70106/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/102443
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