A Lower Palaeolithic flint ovate handaxe, c. 350,000 years B.P.

A Lower Palaeolithic flint ovate handaxe, c. 350,000 years B.P.

Code: 2312

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Description: A fawn flint ovate handaxe with orange brown patination, a reworked embayment on one side, suggesting more specialised use. Rolled but overall a nice example and inexpensive for the size. Provenance unknown but British and possibly from East Anglia.

Size: 127 mm/5 ins. in length

Culture: Lower Palaeolithic

Date: c. 300,000-400,000 years B.P.

Provenance: From a southern English private collection.

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