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.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 81/1935
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- chert
- Common Name
- handaxe
- Simple Name
- handaxe
- Period Classification
- Palaeolithic (500000-10000 BC)
