- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone hand-axe
- Long description
- Hand-axe of dark brown flint with mid yellowish brown patina covering the majority of surfaces. The butt is broken and there are small fracture lines across the flint. [CG [Excav. PR] 16/01/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England Kent Reculver
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Palaeolithic
- Date collected
- By 1884
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 33 mm, Width: max 67 mm, Length: max 132 mm, Weight 260 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.122.152
- Research and responses
J Evans discusses Palaeolithic finds at Reculver in his 1862 paper to the Society of Antiquaries London entitled 'Flint implements in the Drift: being an account of further discoveries on the Continent and in England' [CB 30/10/2009]
1884.122.152
Stone hand-axe
1884.122.152
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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