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Lower Palaeolithic Handaxe
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Julian Watters, 2003-11-14 16:02:43
Title
Lower Palaeolithic Handaxe
Description
English: Flint handaxe of Lower Palaeolithic date. Measures 125.6mm long, by 82.9mm wide, by 34.4mm thick. Weight = 324.5g. Thought to be Lower Palaeolithic due to the fact that a flake has been deliberately removed from one of the edges, thus creating a scraping edge.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Bedford
Date between 500000 BC and 180000 BC
Accession number
FindID: 54820
Old ref: BH-24E6A1
Filename: Handaxe1963.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/13484
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/13484/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/54820
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Object location52° 07′ 37.2″ N, 0° 21′ 49.86″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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