M0011820: Reproduction of an illustration of The Gray's Inn Lane implement or hand axe, possibly from John Evans' The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain, 1872

Date:
April 1951
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/105/22
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M0011820: Reproduction of an illustration of The Gray's Inn Lane implement or hand axe, possibly from John Evans' The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain, 1872. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2022: The Gray's Inn Lane Implement

Description

Reproduction of an illustration of The Gray's Inn Lane implement or hand axe, possibly from Evans, John (1823-1908): The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1872. The Gray's Inn Lane hand axe is a pointed flint hand axe, found buried in gravel under Gray's Inn Lane, London, and now held by the British Museum. The images are on two separate glass plate negatives taped together.

Publication/Creation

April 1951

Physical description

2 photographs on 2 plates glass plate negatives; 8.3 x 4.8 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection possibly holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative.

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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