Description (Labels & Markings)
A brittle paper label affixed to one side reads, in faded pen: '96.193 Isleham Cambs, 188[3]'.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Morley in 1883
Event Date 1883
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Handaxe
Event Date 1896
Author: maa

Context (References)
Clark, J. Grahame D. (1938). 'Early Man'. The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. Salzman, L.F. (ed). Vol. 1. p. 254.
Event Date 1938
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Analysis)
On 11 December 2015, Dr Sacha Jones from the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research identified this handaxe as from the Lower Palaeolithic and dating to roughly 500,000 to 200,000 years ago. The Period field has therefore been updated from 'Palaeolithic' to 'Lower Palaeollithic' accordingly.
Event Date 11/12/2015
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Display)
On display in 'Hide and Seek: Looking for Children in the Past', Li Ka Shing Gallery, MAA from 30 January 2016 to 29 January 2017.
Event Date 30/01/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Joy, Jody. (May/June 2016). 'Hide and Seek: What Happened to Ancient Children?' British Archaeology, no. 148. pp. 42-47
Event Date 05/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
A handaxe of mottled flint, retaining cortext on one corner of the butt end and in the centre of the obverse.
Event Date 12/2/2016
Author: maa