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Record ID: WMID-1793B7
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unfinished roughout for a flint axehead, dating to the Neolithic period. The wedge shaped roughout has been bifacially flaked around its edges and some flaking has been undertaken further into the body of the flint. The butt is still very thick and the roughout seems to have been abandoned before this part of the axe was refined. Much cortex remains on both faces and on the butt and sides of the roughout. It is not immediately clear why the axehead was abandoned before it was finished, although as the butt is still very thick it may be that the desired shape for the axehead was simp…
Created on: Friday 22nd October 2010
Last updated: Thursday 26th January 2023
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