HAND AXE

Acheulian, ca. 450,000 BP
Clacton Gravels, Clacton-on-Sea, England 
LMA 4.2.12

This site was apparently a hunting or trapping camp. In addition to numerous deer, bison, elephant, horse and rhinoceros remains, the site contained a large number of chopping tools, including the pear-shaped hand-axe depicted below. The oldest object in the Logan Collections, it is estimated to be 450,000 years old. As such, it pre-dates even Homo sapiens sapiens, our own species, the tool having instead been fashioned by an early hominid, Homo erectus.

OVOID SCRAPER

Acheulian, ca. 400,000 BP
Swanscombe, Kent, England 
LMA 4.8.18

HAND AXE

Acheulian, ca. 400,000 BP
Warren Hill, Suffolk, England 
LMA 4.2.1

OVATE HAND AXE

Acheulian, ca. 400,000 BP
East Anglia, England 
LMA 4.2.18

TRIANGULAR HAND AXE

Acheulian, ca. 400,000 BP
South Newington Commons, Kent, England 
LMA 4.2.5