These tools were maybe out of flint .Acheulean hand axes from Kent. The types shown are (clockwise from top) cordate, ficron and ovate. The two lower axes are reduced in scale.

Hand axe from Um-Quatfa

Gray's Inn Lane Hand Axe

Pointed flint hand axe from Gray's Inn Lane, London
Size	165 mm (6 in) long
Created	350,000 years ago
Discovered	Gray's Inn Lane, London
Present location	British Museum, London

A hand axe is a stone tool of the Lower (early) and Middle Paleolithic Stone Age. It was a bifacial, similar on both sides, and held in the hand, not with a handle like a modern axe. It was held directly in the hand, perhaps wrapped in a piece of leather.