Chopper
Collection object
0000.0044
Handaxe / chopper, stone. Dark grey shale?, patinated light brown. Pear-shaped in outline. Flat faces, the natural stone surface. The round butt is flaked and blunted by battering. One side is sharp, deeply flaked from both faces. The other side is flat and straight on the butt half, the natural edge of the stone; on one face, one long flake has been removed from the point to midway along this side, with fine secondary flaking towards the point, the edge sharpened by deep flaking on the other face. The tip of the point is missing, but was produced by fine flaking along the long axis, steeply on one face. Neolithic. L. 15.1; W. max 11.9; T. max 3.05; Wt. 824.6g