Man-Made Implement Found

 

Dudley Borough archaeologist, John Hemingway, believes that one of the oldest known man-made implement in Britain has been discovered - and it was found here in the Midlands !

This artefact was discovered by Ray Foxall while fieldwalking west of Halesowen. It has been identified by Nick Ashton of the Quaternary Section of the British Museum as being a handaxe of the Lower Palaeolithic Period. The tool is a very rare find not only from the midlands but from the country as a whole. A broad date range was given of between 200,000 to 500,000 years old.