Inspired by John Frere (1740-1807), MP and High Sheriff of Suffolk, who found five flint hand-axes while watching workmen digging clay for the near by brick works in Hoxne.

Frere concluded that they were 'evidently weapons of war, fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals' and who must date from 'a very remote period indeed; even beyond that of the present world'.

The hand-axes Frere found, is to this day in remarkable condition, and looks as new as the day it was made, what will be left from our highly industrialised society, where hand tools are a common commodity, to inform people about our lives, would they take the trouble to display them in a museum?