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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Probably brought from Dorset and lost in the 19th or 20th centuries.
A chert handaxe extensively flaked on both faces. Some deep hinge fractures on one face. The other face more finely retouched. Some chips have been removed from the side of the tool.
Chert handaxe found in Birchgrove, Cardiff. This tool was used for butchery about 300,000 years ago.
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Site Name: Cardiff, South Wales
Notes: In the material of the embankment of Caerphilly Rd. leading to the bridge over the railway at Birchgrove Halt, Cardiff. Found by the donor, on the west side of the road close to 1 Waun-y-Groes Ave., in soil distributed by the digging of a gas pipetrench.
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