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AXEHEAD
Unique ID: NLM-8494D4
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
White flint (patinated overall) polished axe fragment. Flint axe comprising a sub-ovoid axe head with one straight side, possibly from an ancient break. The flint bears either large hard hammer flake removal scars or similarly abrupt damage over all other areas except that near the cutting edge, and these confer the appearance of a particularly graceless Mesolithic Seamer-style axe. However, the cutting edge is curved and finely polished on both sides, and this feature commends a Neolithic date. It remains uncertain whether most flaking post-dated the polished finishing of the axe, as, where they are juxtaposed, flaking invariably interrupts the polished surfaces. As white patina now extends over the entire object, working, finishing and subsequent damage must all have taken place in antiquity. Suggested date: Early Neolithic, 4000-3500 BC.
Length: 100.5mm, Width: 50mm, Thickness: 27.7mm, Weight: 173.58gms.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 3300 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 100.5 mm
Width: 50 mm
Thickness: 27.7 mm
Weight: 173.5 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 8th December 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM24843a
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Ground/polished
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
District: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: near Fridaythorpe
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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