John Frere

For the English poet and diplomat, see John Hookham Frere.

John Frere, by Henry Walton
A handaxe engraving from Frere's discoveries[1]
The Hoxne Handaxe (right) next to the Gray's Inn Lane Handaxe in the British Museum

John Frere FSA FRS (10 August 1740 – 12 July 1807) was an English antiquary and a pioneering discoverer of Old Stone Age or Lower Palaeolithic tools in association with large extinct animals at Hoxne, Suffolk in 1797.

  1. ^ Frere, John: "Account of Flint Weapons Discovered at Hoxne in Suffolk"., in Archeologia, vol. 13.- London, 1800.- Pp. 204–205