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HANDAXE
Unique ID: DOR-9046AE
Object type certainty: Probably
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete thick butted handaxe of 'pointed' or 'sub-cordate' type. Bifacially flaked on nodular flint with coarse inclusions. Areas of weathered chalky cortex survive on the butt and on one face. Flaking is steep to semi-invasive, with some relatively deep scars, producing a crude trapezoidal to lenticular cross section. Edges are irregular but overall are broadly straight and mid-line. The tip has been lost by flaking in antiquity. There is a zone of surface chatter at the butt end of the object - possibly the result of percussion or battering activities but equally possibly natural rolling abrasion on the parent nodule. The object has many worked post-depositional thermal cracks (natural) throughout, some of which have already spalled, removing areas of original surface. There is an all-over thick off-white re-cortification with a mid-gloss patina.
Date: Lower or Middle Palaeolithic 800,000 to 40,000 BC
Dimensions: 120mm x 73mm x 53mm.
Weight: 416g.
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: 120 mm
Width: 73 mm
Thickness: 53 mm
Weight: 416 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st September 2016 - Friday 30th September 2016
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCMS-016815/11
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: North Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Tarrant Keyneston (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST9104
Four figure Latitude: 50.83545893
Four figure longitude: -2.12917385
1:25K map: ST9104
1:10K map: ST90SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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