M0015033: Illustration of an Iron Age hand-axe found by the apothecary John Conyers in 1690

Previous title, replaced October 2021: Hand-axe found by the apothecary John Conyrs in 1690

Reproduction of an illustration of an Iron Age hand-axe found near Gray's Inn, London and now in the British Museum. Published in Evans, John: The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain, London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1872

August 1956

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.