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Stone Age 'find' goes on display

Submitted by PaulM on Wednesday, 22 December 2004  Page Views: 2183

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A Stone Age hand axe which is more than 500,000 years old has gone on display in Warwick. The tool was found at Smiths Concrete Bubbenhall Quarry at Waverley Wood Farm near Coventry. The axe, which is in good condition, provides evidence of our early ancestors, hominids, in the UK.

The keeper of archaeology at Warwickshire Museum's Market Hall site in Warwick, Sara Wear, says the axe is extremely rare.

She added: "Andesite, which is the volcanic rock it was made of, is either found in the Lake District or north Wales.

"So we don't know how it actually got here.

"It may have got here through natural processes, the actual original rock, rather than the finished hand axe, or it may have been the axe was made somewhere else and brought into this area."

Source: BBC Online
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Re: Stone Age 'find' goes on display by Anonymous on Thursday, 23 December 2004
interesting,several lower palaeolithic artefacts have been discovered a few miles down stream of the river system involved, but made of local stone,and poor quality "drift flint" over the last thirty years,and have been on display in local museums,in leicestershire involving the area between wolvey and burbage and burton hastings,including a very large cleaver in flint, discovered this may weighing just over 11 pounds one of nine,found near the watling street,on the border of warwickshire and leicestershire.arthur. burbage. leicestershire.
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Re: by rockartuk on Thursday, 23 December 2004
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What Stone Age was that?
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