The axe, which Ben found on Shoreham Beach when he was six, could be up to 60,000 years old.

A boy who discovered a Neanderthal hand axe aged six has been told it was a “once in a lifetime find”. Ben Witten, nine, was six when he discovered an “interesting stone” on Shoreham Beach.

This axe, discovered in 1859, was the first strong evidence that we have been here for much longer. It is thought to be around 400,000 years old and, since then, even older stone tools have been ...

The axe was found two years ago and has always held a fascination which keeps drawing the owner back to the object. It's his piece of history to keep.

UCL Institute of Archaeology Nicknamed "The Football", this is a group of more than 100 re-fitted flint shards left over from making a single tool. The hand axe itself was not recovered.

Two giant prehistoric hand axes, one of which is about a foot long, have been uncovered in deep Ice Age sediments in the south of England. The 300,000-year-old tools, slabs of flint chipped on ...