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Object Number
38-90-40/4646
Display Title
2 flint tranchet flakes removed when sharpening axes
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Chipped stone blade
Classification
- Blade
Department
Archaeological
Culture
- Tardenoisian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Europe
/
England
/
<State>
/
Sussex
Additional Geographic Terms
Selmeston; Lower Greensand
Materials
Stone
Dimensions
Overall (Measurement of largest ): 7 × 4 × 1.1 cm (2 3/4 × 1 9/16 × 7/16 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
38-90-40/4646; SELMESTON.
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38-90-40/4650 | Flint core-axe with tranchet sharpening |
Axe
Raw Material |
Sussex
|
| 38-54-40/5177 | 2 stone flake axes or tranchets |
Axe
Raw Material |
Denmark
|
| 38-54-40/5172 | Stone flake or axe tranchet |
Axe
|
Denmark
|
| 40-102-40/5513 | 2 flint tranchets |
Axe
|
Holland
|
| 41-31-40/5531 | Flint tranchet axe |
Axe
|
Denmark
|
| 41-31-40/5533 | Flint tranchet axe |
Adze
|
Denmark
|
| 41-31-40/5532 | Flint tranchet axe |
Adze
|
Denmark
|
| 2019.1.30 | Flint core, fist axes, points, blades, graver, chopper, scrapers, and retouched flakes |
Prismatic blade
Chopper Axe Blade Flake Scraper Core Perforator |
Palestine
|
| 16-61-40/E1895.1 | Celts of Campigny type, so-called "tranchets" |
Axe
|
France
|
| 53-48-40/7417 | 3 flint sharpening flakes from the base of steep scrapers |
Scraper
|
Abri Pataud
|
| 68-13-40/3164.1 | Stone, chipped stone cores, prismatic & casual, blades, flakes, hand axes |
Prismatic core
|
France
|
| 36-50-40/3617 | Flint tranchet -graver |
Edged Tools
|
France
|