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Record ID: SF8879
Object type: AXE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Small flint axe/chisel, with bifacial shallow flake scars and a tranchet cutting edge on one face. Black flint is visible where there is recent damage on the edges and at the butt, but otherwise it is patinated medium grey. Probably Mesolithic, as suggested by the tranchet edge, although the shallow cross-section could possibly suggest a Neolithic date.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KIRTLING', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7324
Object type: TRANCHET AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Relatively crudely finished biface. Transverse flakes from the blade edge, and its asymmetric cross-section (one face flatter, one face more highly convex) support a Mesolithic date, and identification as a small tranchet axe. Black flint with large area of cortex on one long edge, and smaller areas of cortex on butt and on other long edge at butt end.
Created on: Monday 5th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ELY', grid reference and parish protected.