• 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...
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  • In archaeology, a tranchet flake is a characteristic type of flake removed by a flintknapper during lithic reduction. Known as one of the major categories...
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    flakes. Some Acheulean tools were sharpened instead by the removal of a tranchet flake. This was struck from the lateral edge of the hand-axe close to the...
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    pointed end truncated away. Flake cleavers have a cutting edge created by a tranchet flake being struck from the primary surface. Cleavers, found in many Acheulean...
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    side-notched), finely denticulated sickle-blades, burins, scrapers, a few tranchet axes, obsidian, and green obsidian from an unknown source. There were also...
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    Kulkuletti. Because of a unique production process that uses what are called “tranchet blows”, Tiya tools might also belong to the same time span as these other...
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    during pipeline excavations in Lower Ashtead, near Barnett Wood Lane and tranchet axes, dating from 15,000 to 5000 BP, have been discovered in Ottways Lane...
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    side-notched), finely denticulated sickle-blades, burins, scrapers, a few tranchet axes, obsidian, and green obsidian from an unknown source. There were also...
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    floodplains for settlement and resource procurement. Three Mesolitihic tranchet axes were discovered during construction of the Hampton Waterworks. Evidence...
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    the Colne Valley during the Mesolithic have been discovered, including a tranchet axe from Middlewick. In the 1980s an archaeological inventory showed that...
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  • obtruncate, obtruncation, omnitruncation, retrench, retrenchment, tranche, tranchet, trench, trenchancy, trenchant, truncate, truncation, truncheon, trunk...
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    and was carried out using techniques such as the coup de tranchet (French, meaning "tranchet blow"), or simply with scale or scalariform retouches that...
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    been found neolithic remains, including a flint resharpening flake for tranchet axes. There are also the remnants of a Romano-British field system, dating...
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  • obtruncate, obtruncation, omnitruncation, retrench, retrenchment, tranche, tranchet, trench, trenchancy, trenchant, truncate, truncation, truncheon, trunk...
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    been washed out from the cliffs to the west of Reculver, and a Mesolithic tranchet axe was found near the centre of the Roman fort in 1960. This was probably...
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  • Racing Toyota GT86 Cup 285 Christopher Chadwick 1–2 Manuel Amweg 1 Dominic Tranchet 2–3 Werner Gusenbauer 3 TMG United Toyota GT86 Cup 286 Adrian Brusius 1–2...
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  • Tamanti (1980-11-03)3 November 1980 (aged 16) FC St. Gallen 3MF Christophe Tranchet (1981-02-12)12 February 1981 (aged 16) Servette FC Genève 3MF Vincenzo...
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    ("Middle Stone Age") type at the site, including one microlith and a broken tranchet axe. Gillings et al. suggested that these Mesolithic flints, which are...
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    (archaeology) Cleaver (tool) Tool stone Lithic flake Lithic core Lithic reduction Tranchet flake Langdale axe industry Bow and arrow#History Chopping tool Cupstone...
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  • manufactured at the site. The types of tools found consisted of oval bifaces, tranchet bits, celts, picks, beveled bits, blades, and hammer stones. The majority...
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  • clay of the Norfolk till plain has a site that has produced more flint tranchet axes than any other in East Anglia Banham Wymer, J.J. & Robins, P.A.. 1995...
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  • the Colne Valley during the Mesolithic have been discovered, including a Tranchet axe from Middlewick. In the 1980s an archaeological inventory showed that...
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    representing all stages of the production process. We have also recovered three tranchet axes, a significant haul given that only five had previously been found...
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    Sprungmann Patrick Rehs Ford Mustang GT 116 84 SP3 127 Manheller Racing Dominic Tranchet Moritz Gusenbauer Werner Gusenbauer Christopher Chadwick Toyota GT86 116...
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    of flint production-cores and blades, together with the characteristic tranchet axes, adzes and flint picks ('Thames Picks') of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers...
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    flints have been found across the valley area. Grooved ware and petit tranchet-style arrowheads dating from the Neolithic Age have been found in a field...
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  • the activity of early man in the area was found when a Neolithic flint tranchet axe (5 1/2 inches long) dating from circa 3,000 BC was dug up in the garden...
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  • and Bronze Age finds; which include early Bronze Age flints, Mesolithic Tranchet Axe, Neolithic Flint Flake, Mesolithic Flint Scatter, Neolithic Stone Axe...
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    implements including arrowheads, chisels and knives, as well as flint cores, tranchet axes and microliths; pebble maceheads; and bronze or Iron Age pottery....
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    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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