From the Lower Paleolithic (400,000 - 150,000 B.C.) a knapped pear-shaped form with sligth asymmetry and draped in a beautiful mottled orange patina, shaped to fit right hand, marked in white ink KESWICK NORFOLK. On fitted stand.
12 x 3 x 3in. (30.5 x 8 x 7cm.) on stand

Registered with the Portable Antiquities Scheme:
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1011986

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A small group of hand axes were recovered from a quarry pit near Keswick Mill, Norfolk between 1956 and 1970. Dating to circa 400,000-150,000 years old, they represent some of the earliest instruments made by humans and are a very tangible link to our earliest ancestors.