Handaxe
- Description
- A multi-purpose stone tool used by the first people to live in Devon. We call them homo heidelbergensis and they lived in Britain during the warmer periods of the Ice Ages. Many hundreds of these tools have been found in gravel pits at Broom.
- Accession Loan No.
- 68/1993/8
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Common Name
- handaxe
- Simple Name
- handaxe
- Period Classification
- Palaeolithic (500000-10000 BC)
- Family Group
- Material
- chert
- Collection Site Name
- Broom?
- Collection Parish
- Hawkchurch
- Collection Town
- Axminster
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
