Stone Age 'Swanscombe' Knapped Flint Axe

LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000-200,000 B.P.

4 1/4 in. (208 grams, 10.9 cm).

Triangular with broad rounded butt; with old inked inked label 'Callands Lane / Oct 1994 / CW'. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found Swanscombe, Kent, UK.

Literature

Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.1.

CONDITION

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