The archeological excavation of the new Paleolithic site at Manor Farm in Frindsbury, Kent, began in early 2021, ahead of the development of the site into a new school called the Maritime Academy.
While digging into sediment thought to have been part of a tributary of the River Medway from the Middle Pleistocene age, a treasure trove of stone artefacts was unearthed – including two large flint hand-axes.
One of those – labeled Registered Find 50 – came in at a massive 230 mm (9 in) in length, though its tip was missing. But it was Registered Find 53 that really impressed, measuring 296 mm long (11.6 in), and sporting a thick butt end that gives way to an “extensively and carefully worked” blade-like tip with a shallow concave profile and sharpened edges that makes up around half of the roughly symmetrical tool’s length.
I have made hand axes, and dug them up in Kenya. That thing is a monster.
Read the whole thing at NewAtlas.com