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HANDAXE
Unique ID: KENT-C4E539
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A bifacially flaked flint handaxe of cleaver form dating to the Lower Palaeolithic c.500,000-250,000 BC.
Description: The handaxe has a rounded butt, wider middle and a blunt 'blade' end. 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. One side from the wide middle to the butt has been knapped straight with short scaled abrupt retouch retouch in a crushing manner to blunt edge. Some of the flaking appears to be quite haphazard leaving hinge fractures above one edge. The blade edge is wide and clearly defined giving the axe a 'cleaver' form. The flint is unpatinated and a light-mid brown 'toffee' colour som esmall patches of cortex remains and some iron staining is present.
Measurements: 130.68mm long, 76.39mm wide, 29.29mm thick and 425g in weight.
Class: Cleaver
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: 130.68 mm
Width: 76.39 mm
Thickness: 29.29 mm
Weight: 425 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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