Hand Axe
EU1790A
From: France | Somme | Montieres
Curatorial Section: European
| Object Number | EU1790A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Middle Acheulian (uncertain) |
| Provenience | France | Somme | Montieres |
| Locus | Basal unstratified gravels of high low terrace. cf. Boutmy-Muchembled |
| Period | Middle Acheulian (uncertain) |
| Section | European |
| Materials | Flint |
| Description | Flint hand axe - Roughly lanceolate in shape. Many colored spotted patination but mostly an orange-yellow. Lustered. A small amount of a reddish sandly clay-like deposit adhering. Portion of cortex remaining at hilt. Note: EU 1790 - 1797: "Alluvial of first to second terrace." Chelleen of Commont = Lower Acheulian; but meny of the pieces in this group do not seem of this age. |
| Length | 10.7 cm |
| Width | 6.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from the Field Museum, 1914 |
| Other Number | ch. 11 - Field No SF |
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