This paper presents initial results from excavations at Maritime Academy, Frindsbury which produced several handaxes, two of which can be classed as 'giant handaxes'. Artefacts were recovered from fluvial deposits in the Medway Valley and are thought to date from the Marine Isotope Stage 9 interglacial. This paper focuses on the largest of these handaxes and presents metrical data for the artefact and initial comparison with similar artefacts from the British Palaeolithic.
Nice!
Seems wild this type of tool could have been used for possibly hundreds of thousands of years and the current academic consensus is ‘not sure what they were doing with it tbh’.