Questions and Anomalies / d)cuxton526

Roe (1981: fig.5:26): "Implements from Cuxton, after Tester (1965). Nos 1-6, handaxes (note the ficron, no. 1, and the handaxe tip improvised upon a 'handle' consisting of a naturally cylindrical nodule, roughly flaked at the butt end), no. 6 - the site produced several pieces of this nature; cf. also Fig. 5:41, no. 7 from Caddington: nos 7-10, cleavers; nos 11, 12, retouched flakes." Cuxton handaxes belong to the ‘Pointed Handaxe with Cleavers Tradition’ dated to OIS 9. c. 300,000 BP.

Image submitted by Jan Evert Musch, Netherlands. Musch has suggested that object 3 may have a face lower left. Objects 6 and 8 rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise seem to be zoomorphs. Object 11 may be a hominid head in profile.

I would add that Object 2, which Roe suggests is a 'handaxe tip improvised upon a handle', might be identified as representing in its lower half a pregnant or birthgiving female.

Illus. © Roe, D. (1981). The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul]. Figure 5:26. After Tester, P. J. An Acheulian site at Cuxton. Archaeol. Cantiana 80:30-60.