Product Description
Cromerian - Anglian Interglacials c.MIS 17-13, c.712,000 - 524,000 BC. A scarce and extremely early Lower Palaeolithic "Proto" flint hand axe from the famous site at 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 c.700,000 years B.C. and as such Pakefield is now considered to be one of the most important Prehistoric habitation sites in the U.K.] This pleasant flint axe has been nicely worked from a nodule of dark black flint, so synonymous with many of the earliest flint tools discovered at Pakefield. Bifacially worked with pebble cortex remaining on the unworked areas of the upper side and mainly worked on one side to form a simplistic cutting or chopping edge. Intact and in very nice condition for its great age with a lovely shiny old Palaeolithic patina to worked surfaces, a tactile and reasonably priced example of a very early British flint hand axe from a very notable site, 70mm long x 75mm wide x 39mm thick
