Product Description
Cromerian - Anglian Interglacials c.MIS 17-13, c.712,000 - 524,000 BC. A rare, early Lower Paleolithic flint Small hand axe from the famous Prehistoric site of Pakefield, Suffolk. [Pakefield is one of a just couple of sites on the East Anglian coast that has yielded definitive and scientifically dated proof for the earliest habitation by Prehistoric Man in the entirety of the U.K. Finds at Pakefield in recent years have now pushed back proven Hominid occupation by some 200,000 years further to in excess of c.700,000 years B.C.; as such Pakefield is now considered to be one of the most important Prehistoric habitation sites in the U.K.] This small hand axe has been expertly fashioned from a trapezoid shaped flake of dark black flint, so synonymous with many of the earliest flint tools discovered at Pakefield. The flake has then been worked on its upper surface to form a diagonal functional cutting / chopping edge. Some light wear or tumbling to percussion ridges in places otherwise totally intact and in very nice condition for its great age and a pleasant lightly shiny old Paleolithic patina to all worked surfaces, a rare and early prehistoric implement from a very notable Prehistoric site, 68mm long x 50mm wide x 20mm thick
