Questions and Anomalies / c)warsh415

Roe (1981: fig.4:15): "Three plano-convex handaxes from Warsash, Hampshire, after Burkitt et al. (1939)." Plano-convex handaxes belong to the ‘Pointed Handaxe Tradition’ dated to OIS 9. c. 300,000 BP.

Image submitted by Jan Evert Musch, Netherlands. Musch has suggested that object 1 represents a face or mask in lower half of object. The same for object 3.

Illus. © Roe, D. (1981). The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul]. Figure 4:15. After Burkitt, M.C., Pterson, T. T. and Mogridge, C. J. (1939). The Lower Palaeolithic industries near Warsash, Hampshire. Proceedings ofthe Prehistoric Society 5:39-50.