Handaxe with fossil, West Tofts, England

3D Model

A large handaxe knapped around a fossil shell, located centrally on one face, identified as the Cretaceous bivalve mollusc Spondylus spinosus.

Lower Palaeolithic; Acheulean, c. 500,000 BC.

(Accession No 1916.82/Record 2) Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, CC BY NC.