Palaeolithic handaxe found near Wolvey.
Description of this historic site
Findspot - a Palaeolithic handaxe was found 100m east of Hinckley Lane.
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Notes about this historic site
1 A Palaeolithic handaxe was found here in early 1974 in the spoil from an uprooted hedge. The axe is made from a rough pebble of fine-grained quartzite. It is a medium-small, thick ovate handaxe of asymmetric form. Possibly Acheulian.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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