- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone hand-axe. [AG 28/06/2019]
- Long description
- Bifacial chert/flint(?) triangular hand-axe, light-brown with red-brown markings. [AG 28/06/2019]
- Geographical reference
- England Somerset Abbot's Leigh Chapel Pill Farm
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Brian Hack
- Field collector A.C. 'Joe' Cornish
- PRM source Brian Hack
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Lower Palaeolithic
- Date collected
- 1991- 1992
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 18/02/2019
- Materials and processes
- Material Chert Stone, Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 25 mm, Width: max 65 mm, Length: max 88 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2019.8.9
- Research and responses
Uncertain type of stone, most likely either chert or flint due to these being the most common materials at the site [AG 28/06/2019]
Photographed in Hack (2010), drawing in Hack (1999)- Fig. 5 [AG 28/06/2019]
- Associated publications
- Publications featuring this hand-axe- Hack, Brian 2010 ' Lower Palaeolithic Artefacts from Abbots Leigh, Somerset', Somerset Archaeology and Natural History: The Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society for 2009, Vol. 153, p.157. A photograph of the object, along with eleven other hand-axes, is published as figure 1, p.157 with the caption "Bifacial handaxes from Abbot's Leigh". Hack, Brian 1999 'More Handaxes from Somerset', Axbridge Archaeological & Local History Society Journal 1999, pp. 26-28. The object is illustrated on p.27, drawing no.5. [AG 28/06/2019] Publications about the Abbots Leigh Site & Finds- Hack, Brian, and A.P. Cornish 1991 'Preliminary Report on a Recent Collection of Stone Artefacts from the "100 Foot Terrace" at Abbots Leigh, Avon', Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society, Vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 33-41 Hack, Brian 1992 'A Distinctive "Chopping Tool" Element on the '100ft Terrace' at Abbos Leigh, Avon', Proceedings of the Bristol Spelaeological Society, Vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 273-5 Hack, Brian 1993 'A "Quartzite" Handaxe of Acheulian Type from Abbots Leigh Avon', Retrospect: Axbridge Archaeological and Local History Society, no. 160 (October) pp. 3-5 Hack, Brian 2002 ' Collections of Lower Palaeolithic Artefacts from Abbots Leigh, Somerset (1991-1992)', Lithics: The Newsletter of the Lithics Studies Society, no. 23, pp. 48-51 Lacaille, A. D. 1954 'Palaeoliths from the Lower Reaches of the Bristol Avon', Antiquaries Journal, Vol. 34, nos 1/2 (January-April), pp.1-27 Roe, D.A. 1974 'Palaeolithic Artefacts from the River Avon Terraces Near Bristol' Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society, Vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 319-26 [AG 28/06/2019]
2019.8.9
Stone hand-axe. [AG 28/06/2019]
2019.8.9
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