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.

Record ID: SF6753
Object type: TRANCHET AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Mesolithic tranchet axehead. The main blade flakes are removed transversely and it would originally have been hafted in a wooden handle. The axehead is complete but relatively small, and made of a pale grey/brown flint. It is bifacially worked with a pointed butt and a broad, rounded cutting edge formed by the removal of single transverse flakes. Tranchet axes are in many ways better than the later (Neolithic) flaked and polished axes in that the resharpening is simple and rapid, making it a far more utilitarian tool.
Created on: Thursday 13th September 2001
Last updated: Friday 9th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK STANSFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.