Description: An Acheulian grey flint cordate handaxe with deep mottled brown patination, a substantial amount of cortex remaining on one side, with a large ancient chip to the base and to one side, and a small recent chip at the point. From Barnham in Suffolk (marked Norfolk on implement).
Size: 139 mm/5.5 ins. in length
Culture: Lower Palaeolithic
Date: c. 400,000 years B.P.
Provenance: Ex Robert Stonard Collection, Surrey.
Notes: Roe (1968) records over 230 handaxes from Barnham but notes ‘material, probably a considerable amount, is known to have passed into private collections’.
References: Roe, D.A. (1968) A Gazetteer of British Lower & Middle Palaeolithic Sites, CBA Research Report 8, Council for British Archaeology, p. 262.
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