Record ID: NMS-206A1C
Object type: TRANCHET FLAKE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tertiary soft hammer struck flake, sub semi-circular in plan, of pale white patinated light grey flint with a slightly darker band through the middle of the flake and a few small spots of iron stains. All flake scars to the dorsal face are also soft hammer and are struck centripetally from the curved edge, the ventral face has two small remnants of the (presumably) original ventral surface of the core tool, also to the curved edge. The distal end to the flake is broken transversely. This is appears to be a tranchet flake to sharpen the cutting edge of an adze or similar tool, if…
Created on: Monday 30th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 24th November 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-DDE725
Object type: TRANCHET FLAKE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint tranchet axehead from the early Mesolithic period (c.9000 - 8000 BC). The flint is a brownish-cream colour with crumbling inclusions visible. The axe is crudely worked, with a rounded cutting edge, roughly parallel sides and a pointed butt. It has a broadly triangular cross-section. The flint appears to be in the second stage of being worked. The broad shape of the blade and technique used of the removal of a single flake with a transverse blow is common in the early Mesolithic. The object has been broken in antiquity caused by inclusions or possibly been discarded because th…
Created on: Friday 10th August 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 28th August 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-F9E656
Object type: TRANCHET FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A petit tranchet tool, unifacially retouched and expediently manufactured. Proximal and distal ends and the right margin remain unworked, however there is continuous retouch of abrupt angle to the left margin (backed). There is some damage at the distal end and left margin intersect. This flint is mid grey in colour with light grey mottling. Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on p124, Fig 5.108, which dates to the Late Neolithic.
Created on: Friday 25th November 2011
Last updated: Thursday 1st March 2012
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Record ID: SOM-9BBB64
Object type: TRANCHET FLAKE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tranchet shapening flake taken across the blade of a Mesolithic axe. The piece has clear ripples on the ventral face from being struck across the width of the blade. It is triangular in section with the dorsal face being the two sides of the axe blade. One side of the blade was relatively plain with only a few removals The other shows evidence for long semi-abrupt sub-parallel retouch along most of the blade. It is medium to translucent grey flint, 31.3mm long and 8.8mm by 7.4mm; it weighs 1.85 grams.
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 21st September 2011
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Record ID: SOM-8D49B1
Object type: TRANCHET FLAKE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a poorly stuck 'tranchet' flake from the end of an axe of Late Mesolithic date. The small flake has been taken off across the end of a large heavily retouched tool. It is triangular in section with the retouched faces of the tool meeting in a curved end at almost 90 degrees. More of one side is present than of the other. Both sides show evidence of invasive scalar invasive semi-abrupt to shallow retouch. This flake would not have removed the entire end of the piece and although it would have created a sharp edge it is not a large or shallow as more tranchet flakes. It is 30.…
Created on: Thursday 10th March 2011
Last updated: Thursday 10th March 2011
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