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HANDAXE
Unique ID: HAMP-004F73
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A complete flint Acheulian handaxe dating to the Lower Palaeolithic. The axe is small and ovate in form . Both the butt and the tip are U shaped in plan. It has moderately straight, battered edges. Both faces are covered with removals but the scars have been heavily worn. The flint has an orange brown colour with a patch of thick white iron stained patina on one face.
Notes:
This is part of a collection of 53 Palaeolithic hand tools discovered during the finder's lifetime.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
Period from: PALAEOLITHIC
Period to: PALAEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 400000 BC
Date to: Circa 40000 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 111.6 mm
Width: 70.8 mm
Thickness: 31.1 mm
Weight: 225 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st January 1940 - Thursday 1st January 1970
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 3318
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Fareham (District)
Parish or ward: Warsash (District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU5105
Four figure Latitude: 50.842285
Four figure longitude: -1.277028
1:25K map: SU5105
1:10K map: SU50NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.
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