The Lower PALAEOLITHIC (Old Stone Age) Britain 2580,000 200,000 BCE This is the period of the earliest known occupation of Britain by humans. This huge period saw many changes in the environment, mainly glacial. Providing dating for this distant period is difficult and uncertain. The inhabitants were bands of hunter-gatherers who arrived from Northern Europe using the land bridge (Doggerland) which, at that time, connected Britain to Europe. These hunter-gatherers lived before the ancestors of Neanderthals split from the ancestors of Homo sapiens 600,000 years ago. Flint tools such as bifacial hand axes, scrapers, points and flint flakes adapted as tools show an appearance.
Description: Middle/Lower Palaeolithic flint scraper/hand axe, around 300,000 years BCE.- Ref.# SI/12
Date: Around 300,000 years
Marks/Observations: Origin of artefact Europe/Britain. Very nice flint stone scraper/hand axe, bifacial, showing well defined flaked edges. Described by the British Museum from a photo sent to them as Flint scraper. Staining suggests a Lower or Middle Palaeolithic age
Condition: Very good, well defined shape with sharp edges.
Dimensions: 8.5cm x 6cm x 2.5cm
Price: R200.00
Shipping: R120.00 by courier
Please note, I am NOT a qualified archaeologist/antiquarian and the description I have given is based on research of the subject and communication with the British Museum.
This is a genuine artefact.
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