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Lower Palaeolithic stone handaxe
A handaxe with a point at one end and a flat base. The base is chunky and it is clearly made on a tabular piece of rock.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
81.116H/1.D930
Find Information
Site Name: Pontnewydd Cave, St Asaph
Grid Reference: SJ 0155 7106
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1981
Notes: Lower Breccia Grid Square : K10
Acquisition
Donation, 16/12/1981
Measurements
length / mm:111.8
width / mm:77.0
thickness / mm:42.2
weight / g:361.8
Material
fine silicic tuff
Location
In store
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