A Lower Palaeolithic flint ovate handaxe, c. 400,000 years B.P.

A Lower Palaeolithic flint ovate handaxe, c. 400,000 years B.P.

Code: 2311

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Description: A fawn flint ovate handaxe with orange brown patination, water worn with significant smoothing and some recent edge chips, including a large chip to one end, but an inexpensive example. Provenance unknown but British and possibly from East Anglia.

Size: 115 mm/4.5 ins. in length

Culture: Lower Palaeolithic

Date: c. 300,000-500,000 years B.P.

Provenance: From a southern English private collection.

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