"Giant handaxe found at Ice Age site in Kent" Topic
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| Tango01 | 27 Oct 2023 8:52 p.m. PST |
"Archaeologists in southeastern England have discovered a prehistoric handaxe so big it would have been almost impossible to wield as a cutting tool. The handaxe is about 300,000 years old and is the third largest ever found in Britain. A team from Archaeology South-East, UCL Institute of Archaeology, excavated Manor Farm in Kent ahead of construction of a new school (the Maritime Academy, which has given the finds their name). The team unearthed more than 800 Paleolithic stone artifacts in deposits of fluvial sediment from a prehistoric tributary of the River Medway. Several of them were handaxes and two of them were giants of a form known as a ficron, characterized by a rounded thick base tapering to a long, finely-worked tip. One is 23 cm (nine inches) long but missing its tip. The other is 29.6 cm (11.6 inches) long and intact. It is 11.3 cm (4.4 inches) wide at its widest point…"
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| Dn Jackson | 28 Oct 2023 7:43 a.m. PST |
That's massive. Hmm, who could have used it? Picts: link Maybe. But my votes for aliens! |
| Zephyr1 | 28 Oct 2023 2:36 p.m. PST |
Well, you're not going to knock out a cave bear with a puny little axe… ;-) |
| Tango01 | 28 Oct 2023 3:17 p.m. PST |
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ZULUPAUL  | 29 Oct 2023 3:45 a.m. PST |
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| Dagwood | 29 Oct 2023 6:18 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 29 Oct 2023 3:29 p.m. PST |
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