Table 1.

Descriptive morphological data from 224 of the Acheulean handaxes recovered from Fordwich Pit during the 1920s, and now stored at the British Museum (n = 189), Herne Bay Seaside Museum (n = 34) and Canterbury Museums Trust (n = 1). Data for all artefacts are derived from Ashmore [20], except for the Canterbury Museums Trust handaxe. Note that some ratios were incorrectly calculated by Ashmore [20]; we provide corrected values.

	length (mm)	width (mm)	thickness (mm)	point of max. width from tip (mm)	elongation ratio (width/length)
mean	142.4	74.3	47.2	89.9	0.53
min	58.0	41.0	19.0	17.0	0.31
max	230.0	113.0	77.0	163.0	0.98
s.d.	29.5	118.0	125.0	23.6	0.09
CV (%)	20.7	15.9	26.4	26.2	17.6