High polish of conical end indicates that may have been used as hand axe - no wear indicating binding or gripping by insertion in handle. Local stone is granite - appears to be made of granite.

But as soon as the archaeologist saw the photo, he knew Witten’s “interesting stone” was the real deal. “Neanderthal hand axes are rare in Sussex,” Sainsbury tells Fox News Digital’s ...

Coincidentally, he went to the Worthing Museum for a Stone Age exhibition which ... it turned out to be nothing short of the real thing: a rare Neanderthal axe from a significant moment in the ...

Lucy Harnden brought this polished stone axe head to BBC Guernsey's outside broadcast event at the Guernsey Museum. It was found by her great grandmother Eliza Henry about a hundred years ago in ...

In 2017, in a gravel quarry near Swindon, two amateur fossil hunters found an extraordinary cache of Ice Age mammoth remains and a stone hand-axe made by a Neanderthal.