Record ID: PUBLIC-F2A6FA
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and unpolished Neolithic, (c.4000-2400BC) flint axehead, having bifacially convex sides one more pronounced than the other. Its cutting edges are sharp and undamaged. On the surface of one side, there are three small cavity's measuring 5.1 mm x 2.3 mm, 2.3 mm x 2.0 mm and 1.9 mm x 1.8 mm, probably caused by fossil inclusions. Probably Neolithic, it measures 83.2 mm in length, is 57.6 mm wide, has a thickness of 29.2 mm, and weighs 152.3 gm.
Created on: Monday 28th January 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-5AB001
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
An elongate bifacially flaked pick or axe-rough but dating to a probable mesolithic period, The object is made on a broken tabular nodule of probably opaque pale grey mottled flint, there is rough and often deep flaking on both faces resulting in centre axial ridges. Both faces retain traces of chalky cortex and both margins are markedly irregular and have traces of deliberate battering or dressing. One end of the object tapers to a blunt point where it has broke off, the other is blunt thick and squared-off and has a lozenge shaped cross-section, consisting largely of naturally fract…
Created on: Saturday 4th February 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 1st August 2018
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