The Happisburgh Hand Axe – the oldest hand axe in north-west Europe 2
by Colly Mudie, 20-10-17
It is a beautiful object. The flint is black in this area of Norfolk – it is not grey as you might think – and someone has gone to enormous lengths to make it beautiful.
The Happisburgh hand axe was found relatively recently, in 2000, and its discovery meant that we actually found evidence for human occupation in this country 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, so it has rewritten the history books.
http://museumcrush.org/the-happisburgh-hand-axe-the-oldest-hand-axe-in-north-west-europe/
