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Axehead, flint, ostensibly from Denmark
-5000-50
Flint hand axe
10,000-5,000 BCE
Acheulian flint hand axe, c 10000-5000 BC.
10000-5001 BCE
Flint axehead, possibly found at Furze Platt in 1934, palaeolithic
Flint axehead
1000-500
Cleaver, from a 16th century hunting trousse
Cleaver, from a 16th century hunting trousse