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HANDAXE
Unique ID: DOR-074E98
Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A possible core or crude handaxe fragment. Mottled dark grey to pale grey flint discoidal core or broken handaxe butt made on a tabular nodule with shallow lustrous yellow-brown staining and a mid gloss patina. Some worn orange-red-brown cortex remains on both faces and one margin. The remainder of both faces are covered with large shallow broad flake removal scars suggesting use of a soft hammer, those on the putative 'butt' end are steeper and adjacent to an area of cortex. There is a relatively straight vertical break across the whole piece which may represent (ancient) breakage and loss of a pointed end. The surface has a slightly rolled appearance with very slight abrasion of the flake scar ridges and minor 'chattering' of margins. Slight post-depositional (post staining) damage.
Date: Probably Lower Palaeolithic but possibly Middle Palaeolithic: 800,000 to 40,000 BC
Dimensions: 150mm x 138mm x 51mm
Weight: 1432g
Class: Crude
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: PALAEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: PALAEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 800000 BC
Date to: Circa 40000 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 150 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 51 mm
Weight: 1432 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 016487/8
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: East Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Ferndown Town (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SZ0697
Four figure Latitude: 50.77255307
Four figure longitude: -1.91627692
1:25K map: SZ0697
1:10K map: SZ07SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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