LITHIC IMPLEMENT 263856

Description: A flint handaxe. A narrow, slightly elongate, pointed plano-convex handaxe. It has been made on a large flake that was probably originally naturally fractured. The flint is orangey grey in colour and patinated to a dark orange-brown with patches of iron staining. The flaking scars on the convex face are largely shallow and only occasionally steep, suggesting soft-hammer reduction. The inter-scar ridges are blunted and the piece is generally heavily abraded and the edges blunted and chattered. This, together with the staining, indicates an extended period of fluvial rolling and post-depositional damage. Date: Probably Lower Palaeolithic - 500,000 to 40,000 Dimensions: Weight:

Date: -500000 - -40000

Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT

Last import: August 15, 2017