handaxe

Description

Summary: 1 grey flint, ovate shaped, Handaxe of the Wymer Type K, some cortex remains on both faces but no iron-staining. The appearance is of a steep tortoise core and the edges are not bifacially worked possibly this could be a copper-core, from Hackpen Hill, Winterbourne Monkton, Wiltshire.


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