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FLAKED AXEHEAD

Unique ID: FAKL-BAA558

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

Flaked flint axe, or more accurately, adze. Roughly flaked from a poor quality, opaque, mixed grey flint with small area of original cortex and a crystal filled cavity. Partial recortication.Keeled section with a convex lower face from which the two converging faces were flaked. Less coarse, emi-abrupt, scaled flaking was carried out around the curved cutting edge and the crest of the keel is battered, This object has the characteristics of a Mesolithic 'Hassock's adze' (Butler, 2005, 103, Fig. 42). Length 208mm, Width 55mm, Thickness 51mm, Mass 715.6g.

Class: Hassocks Adze

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MESOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 9000 BC
Date to: Circa 4000 BC

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 208 mm
Width: 55 mm
Thickness: 51 mm
Weight: 715.6 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st January 1988

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: a IF248

Materials and construction

Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete

Spatial metadata

Region: South East (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: East Sussex (County)
District: Lewes (District)
Parish or ward: Iford (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

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.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Fieldwalking
Discovery circumstances: Field walking

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Butler, C.	2005	Prehistoric Flintwork	Stroud	The History Press	103, Fig. 42

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Recording Institution: FAKL
Created: 8 years ago
Updated: 8 years ago

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