Hoxne Handaxe
by Middle Temple Library
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Hoxne Handaxe
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Middle Temple Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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Hoxne handaxe. 19th-century artwork of a frontal and side view of the 400,000-year-old flint stone weapon found at Hoxne, Suffolk, UK. This specimen, known as the Hoxne handaxe, is on loan from the Society of Antiquaries to the British Museum. These artworks illustrated an account given by British antiquarian John Frere (1740-1807) of flints found by workmen digging in clay deposits at Hoxne in 1797. Frere's observation that such flints were 'weapons of war, fabricated by a people who had not the use of metals', laid the foundations for modern palaeolithic archaeology. Published in Volume 13 (1800) of 'Archaeologia', the Society's journal.
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July 5th, 2016
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