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A huge, heavy and excellent Lower Paleolithic flint "Biface" hand axe, Weybourne, Norfolk. SOLD
A huge, heavy and excellent Lower Paleolithic flint
A huge, heavy and excellent Lower Paleolithic flint A huge, heavy and excellent Lower Paleolithic flint A huge, heavy and excellent Lower Paleolithic flint A huge, heavy and excellent Lower Paleolithic flint
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Hoxnian Interglacial period (MIS11) c.424k-374k BC. A huge, heavy and excellent Lower Paleolithic flint "Biface" hand axe found some years back close to the Coastal path at Weybourne, Norfolk and from an old Norfolk collection. This huge and very impressive example weighs in at 1.4kg and is very clearly worked throughout with a well defined blade edge on either side, both blade edges exhibiting some percussive traces of usagelong ago. The side of the axe that lay exposed to the atmosphere with a largely grey / blackish surface patina, the side that lay in the earth further enhanced by nice iron oxide highlights to the percussion ridges. A hugely imposing and tactile Lower Paleolithic hand axe and very rare this large, 180mm high x 130mm wide x 57mm thick