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TRANCHET AXEHEAD
Unique ID: NLM-9BF99F
Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Pale grey flint with cortex spot, possible tranchet axe. A thick oval flake of roughly oval section with covering hard hammer working overall, and with an angled end which may indicate sharpening by oblique removal of a single flake. The same end is ridged by battering immediately below this site. The object was formed by hard hammer removal of large flakes from the dorsal side, and bears parallel broad flake removal scars on the ventral surface, most clearly visible on one side of a notional longitudinal centre line. One side is flat, probably from a single hard hammer strike during this initial working. The object is lightly iron stained and it is possible that some conchoidal fractures have arisen fortuitously from rolling in gravels after the deposition of the object. Suggested date: Early Mesolithic, 10,000-7000 BC.
Length: 76.9mm, Width: 43.9mm, Thickness: 19.2mm, Weight: 82.78gms
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: MESOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 10000 BC
Date to: Circa 7000 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 76.9 mm
Width: 43.9 mm
Thickness: 19.2 mm
Weight: 82.78 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 26th July 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM36686
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Haxey (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE7802
Four figure Latitude: 53.5089102
Four figure longitude: -0.82533956
1:25K map: SE7802
1:10K map: SE70SE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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