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TRANCHET FLAKE
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Norfolk County Council, Jason Gibbons, 2020-11-24 12:13:18
Title
TRANCHET FLAKE
Description
English:

Tertiary soft hammer struck flake, sub semi-circular in plan, of pale white patinated light grey flint with a slightly darker band through the middle of the flake and a few small spots of iron stains. All flake scars to the dorsal face are also soft hammer and are struck centripetally from the curved edge, the ventral face has two small remnants of the (presumably) original ventral surface of the core tool, also to the curved edge. The distal end to the flake is broken transversely. 

This is appears to be a tranchet flake to sharpen the cutting edge of an adze or similar tool, if this correct, this is very likely to be Mesolithic, 10,000 to 4,000 BC.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Norfolk
Date between 10000 BC and 4001 BC
Accession number
FindIdentifier: 999538
Credit line
The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/1122880
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1122880/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
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Other versions FindID 999538 has multiple images: 1122878 1122879 1122880 search
Object location52° 47′ 32.28″ N, 0° 47′ 05.15″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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