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HANDAXE
Unique ID: KENT-C3645E
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A bifacially flaked flint handaxe dating from the Lower Palaeolithic c.500,000-250,000 BC.
Description: The handaxe is quite crude but is roughly pointed wide a wider rounded butt. It has been bifacially worked, with flaking covering both sides, this has been uneven however leaving one side much thicker than the other leavining plano-convex in cross-section. The edges are defined by invasive, scaled, low angled retouch. Some of the flaking appears to be quite haphazard leaving hinge fractures The flint is unpatinated and a mid dark grey colour.
Measurements: 113.62mm long, 60mm wide, 40.4mm thick and 290g in weight.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: PALAEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: PALAEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 500000 BC
Date to: Circa 180000 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 113.62 mm
Width: 60 mm
Thickness: 40.4 mm
Weight: 290 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Canterbury (District)
Parish or ward: Reculver (District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TR2369
Four figure Latitude: 51.37623429
Four figure longitude: 1.20288156
1:25K map: TR2369
1:10K map: TR26NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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