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The Furze Platt Hand Axe

This hand axe has been identified as being from the Acheulian culture (Lower Palaeolithic) about 400, 000 years ago. Found in Britain in 1919 the hand axe weighs 2.8 kilos and is 30.6 cm long

Picture No
10703892
Media ID
47560702
Size
4773px x 3676px (15.1MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Natural History Museum
Source
Photograph from the Natural History Museum Collection

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