Hoxnian anters, bones & hand axe from Swanscombe
Part of a deer antler, fragment of elephant bone and flint hand axe all discovered at Swanscombe, Kent, south of the River Thames. These date back 400,000 years and probably belonged to Homo neanderthalensis.
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