Things Ain't Always What They Seem to be: a Cautionary Tale Concerning a 'Hand-axe

摘要

In June 2007 David Summers was digging in his garden at iighton (NGR SU 14778117), just south of Swindon, shire, when he noticed a small bifacial flint tool. ising that it was something interesting he e-mailed ographs to Devizes Museum where the now-retired tor, Paul Robinson, identified it as a Lower solithic hand-axe The implement is a small pointed rial tool, conforming exactly to Wymer's (1968) type ad-axes; it measures 60 mm long, 47 mm wide and is im thick. The object is unrolled, suggesting that it had noved far from the point where it was dropped, but is ily stained. Nothing like it was known from the ediate area although hand-axes have been recorded.