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LOT 0325

Stone Age 'Swanscombe' Classic Pointed Flint Handaxe

PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 425,000-362,000 B.P.

3 1/2 in. (121 grams, 88 mm).

Classic pointed handaxe from the type-site at Swanscombe, Kent; mainly hard hammer struck with two small areas of cortex remaining near the butt.

Provenance

Found Swanscombe, Kent, UK.
From a private Norfolk, UK, collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.

Footnotes

The middle gravels from which this axe most likely came date to the Hoxnian Interglacial period at MIS 11 (425-362 B.C.) and are associated with the only known hominin remains from the Hoxnian which had features of both Neanderthal and modern humans. (Wymer 1999, p.77.)

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LOT 0325

Stone Age 'Swanscombe' Classic Pointed Flint Handaxe

Sold for (Inc. bp): £364

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