France

Wimereux (North Coast)

Collection of Charles Belart

Mr. Belart's Websites:  INDUSTRIES PALEOLITHIQUES DE WIMEREUX and CURIOUSITES LITHIQUES DE WIMEREUX

Among the artifacts shown below are several flaked cores, found in context with hundreds of stone tools.  Most of these are putatively from the Clactonian period, roughly 400,000 years BP.
 

A core in the form of a human-like head.

Another view of the object in the top photo, showing several incorporated tools.
 

Bear?

 

A chopping tool.

 

A fluted hand axe or cutting tool.

 

Venus figure?

 

A tool with the appearance of a lion's head.

 

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