File:Mesolithic tranchet axehead, Tranchet adze or pick (FindID 762762).jpg
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Summary
| Mesolithic tranchet axehead: Tranchet adze or pick | |||
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| Photographer |
Oxfordshire County Council, Anni Byard, 2016-01-18 17:34:48 |
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| Title |
Mesolithic tranchet axehead: Tranchet adze or pick |
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| Description |
English: A complete knapped flint tranchet adze or pick dating to the Mesolithic period (8300-4000 BC), similar to the so-called 'Thames Pick'. The pick has been made from a flint nodule and is broadly sub-rectangular in plan with both the butt end and the bladed cutting edge being slightly rounded; the pick tapers slowly from the butt end towards the blade. In section the pick is a pointed ovoid, with both butt and blade being thin and sharp and pointed in profile. The dorsal side of the pick has a high, off-centre longitudinal ridge, bevelled to each side due to flakes having been removed with a hard hammer in multiple directions. The ventral side (or the underside) of the pick also has an off-centre longitudinal ridge but this is not as high or pronounced as the dorsal ridge. At the tip of the axe blade is the characteristic 'tranchet' flake removal, which gives this type of adze or pick its name. All the cortex has been removed. The sides of the pick are fairly straight and slightly battered. The flint is heavily patinated with the off-white colour associated with chalk downlands, and internally the flint appears to be a motled light-grey in colour. This pick is Mesolithic in date and is of a type used throughout the period. |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) West Berkshire | ||
| Date | between 8300 BC and 4000 BC | ||
| Accession number |
FindID: 762762 Old ref: BERK-D1E2C2 Filename: OXPAS2015413.jpg |
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| Source |
https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/548899 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/548899/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/762762 |
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| Permission (Reusing this file) |
Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 15 November 2020) | ||
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Attribution: Oxfordshire County Council
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| current | 14:27, 13 February 2019 | | 2,727 × 2,147 (988 KB) | Fæ | Portable Antiquities Scheme, BERK, FindID: 762762, mesolithic, page 4871, batch count 12809 |
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