Handaxe
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.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 5/1986/45
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- stone
- Common Name
- handaxe
- Simple Name
- handaxe
- Period Classification
- Palaeolithic (500000-10000 BC)
