Lower Palaeolithic Andesite axe from Wood Farm, Bubbenhall

1 A lower palaeolithic handaxe, made from andesite, was found during observation of new faces at Wood Farm, Bubbenhall. This comes from the Baginton Formation, 1km north-east of an extraction area which in the 1980s produced a number of Lower Palaeolithic artefacts.
2 This handaxe and other tools, cores and roughouts, a total assemblage of 70 artefacts, was recovered between 2004 and 2006, although only the andesite handaxe was firmly in situ. This article re-evaluates the assemblage from the floodplain of the Bytham River, in its context as a pre-Anglian occupation site.