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Unique ID: FAKL-0548F3
Object type certainty: Certain
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Fragment of a Neolithic polished axe, badly damaged in anquity only part of one face and one side surviving. Flaking around the cutting edge suggest that a crude attempt was made to resharpen the axe after breaking. Pointed oval section with facets down each edge. The implement is now fully recorticated making it difficult to describe the flint although it appears to be of mixed colour. Neolithic date. Length 103mm, Width 51mm, Thickness 30mm, Mass 161.9g
Class: Flint, polished
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 2200 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 103 mm
Width: 51 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight: 161.9 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 1984
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Other reference: a IF 180
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Fragment
4 Figure: TQ3906
Four figure Latitude: 50.83684529
Four figure longitude: -0.02734783
1:25K map: TQ3906
1:10K map: TQ30NE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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