Description (Physical description)
Handwritten catalogue card: 'Flint tools'. Amended in a later hand '3 [sic?] handaxes (2 in unabraided condition)'.
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Worked flints.'
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label affixed to object reads: 'CHESTERTON'.
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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Record for Z 15125: '3 handaxes [sic?], 2 in an unabraded condition.'
Event Date 20/8/1986
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Z 15125.1 or Z 15125.2 Exhibited: Displayed in the Andrews Gallery as part of the 'Assembling Bodies' exhibition March 2009-November 2010. Display label noted 'Paleolithic Hand Axes. 1.7 million to 12,000 years ago. Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, St. Acheul and Chelles, France, Chesterton and Swanscombe, England. These are all-purpose tools, made by hand to fit into hand, the Swiss army knives of our Stone Age ancestors, Homo erectus. These early hominids had bodies much like our own-they walked on two legs, were skilled in using their hands to knap flint and butcher animal carcasses, they travelled long distances and worked together in groups- but they did not have brains or language skills like ours'.
Event Date 3/2009
Author: Remke van der Velden

Description (Physical description)
Flint handaxe with traces of cortex on obverse.
Event Date 8/4/2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Other)
The Accession Register and original catalogue card do not give the type of number of objects catalogued as Z 15125, but at a subsequent date the catalogue card was modified to record three handaxes, two in unabraided condition. Three handaxes marked with this idno were found, but whilst two (now Z 15125.1-2) are indeed from Chesterton, the third bears a label with its original accession number (1901.71) and is from Oakington. It is not currently known, therefore, whether there is, in fact, a third handaxe from Chesterton.
Event Date 8/4/2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)