Product Description
Sited dated to MIS 9-8, c.337k-300k BP. A good and heavy Lower Paleolithic chisel tipped unifacial pebble hand axe found many years back in Kimbridge Pit, Romney, Hampshire and from a Hampshire Geologists collection. Struck from a large flint pebble of a pale honey coloured flint with much original pebble cortex remaining over most of tool affording a good grip of the tool in use and one side then has a couple of large carefully placed flake removals forming a narrow chisel like functional tip. Some smoothing to percussion ridges otherwise and with nice ageing and a pleasant old Paleolithic colouration and patination, a large, tactile Lower Paleolithic pebble hand tool, 123mm long x 74mm wide x 64mm deep approx.
