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A tranchet axe is a lithic tool made by removing a flake, known, when using this method, as a tranchet flake, parallel to the final intended cutting edge of the tool which creates a single straight edge as wide as the tool itself. It is found in some Acheulean assemblages as well as in Mesolithic flaked stone industries.
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A tranchetaxe is a lithic tool made by removing a flake, known, when using this method, as a tranchet flake, parallel to the final intended cutting edge...
The technique used to make the tranchet flake was used in the making of other tools as well, including tranchetaxes (characterized by their trapezoidal...
during pipeline excavations in Lower Ashtead, near Barnett Wood Lane and tranchetaxes, dating from 15,000 to 5000 BP, have been discovered in Ottways Lane...
Colne Valley during the Mesolithic have been discovered, including a tranchetaxe from Middlewick. In the 1980s an archaeological inventory showed that...
washed out from the cliffs to the west of Reculver, and a Mesolithic tranchetaxe was found near the centre of the Roman fort in 1960. This was probably...
A hand axe (or handaxe or Acheulean hand axe) is a prehistoric stone tool with two faces that is the longest-used tool in human history. It is made from...
Colne Valley during the Mesolithic have been discovered, including a Tranchetaxe from Middlewick. In the 1980s an archaeological inventory showed that...
early Bronze Age flints, Mesolithic TranchetAxe, Neolithic Flint Flake, Mesolithic Flint Scatter, Neolithic Stone Axe, Palaeolithic burning and many more...
with road materials transported to the site. Mesolithic and neolithic tranchetaxe-heads were found near Haddens Plantation and Heath End Farm. From finds...
the activity of early man in the area was found when a Neolithic flint tranchetaxe (5 1/2 inches long) dating from circa 3,000 BC was dug up in the garden...
were sharpened instead by the removal of a tranchet flake. This was struck from the lateral edge of the hand-axe close to the intended cutting area, resulting...
discovered at Wp6 An axe shaft made from pine wood preserves evidence for the preparation of shafts of Mesolithic axes (tranchetaxe and core axe) Bone points...
been found neolithic remains, including a flint resharpening flake for tranchetaxes. There are also the remnants of a Romano-British field system, dating...
flint production-cores and blades, together with the characteristic tranchetaxes, adzes and flint picks ('Thames Picks') of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers...
clay of the Norfolk till plain has a site that has produced more flint tranchetaxes than any other in East Anglia Banham Wymer, J.J. & Robins, P.A.. 1995...
had a great quantity of flint workings, occupation material and two Tranchetaxes dated to 7000BC in the Mesolithic. Prehistoric (Mesolithic & Bronze...
comparatively smaller game of the newly-formed woodland environment. Petit tranchet arrowheads for hunting birds are found at Dozmary Pool, Crowdy Marsh, and...
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