Paleolithic hand axe, Vicinity of Broomfield (EHER 6116)

Paleolithic hand axe, from here in the British Museum.

Hand-axe. In British Museum <1> <2> "Challis (1887) records a flint 'scraper' in 'the drift gravels of Broomfield' which is probably the rolled outer flake in the British Museum ex Sturge. There is also the tip of a hand-axe, very rolled and stained, marked 'Higher gravels of the Chelmer'. Provenance of neither artefact is precise. They may have come from the gravel underlying the boulder clay in this area-the Kesgrave Sands and Gravels, regarded as Beestonian. "However, if so, they would be the only ones known from this formation". <3> gives TL 705105 as a general grid reference <3> <4> Site Assessment = sand and gravel?/boulder clay/- Accession numbers? Information from NRHE TL 707 105 There is a hand-axe from here in the British Museum, Sturge collection Challis refers to a `scraper' he found in drift gravel at Broomfield, and mothersole refers to another find of a hand axe iin `a cart wag at Pryors Farm', where two other worked flints had been previously found. The pronounce of these finds is therefore suspect, as gravel may well have been dumped upon the cast way. <5> Additional reference. <6>