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The axe found at Bubbenhall Quarry is to be displayed at Warwickshire Museum’s Market Hall site in Warwick.
It’s made of andesite – which must have come from the lake district or north wales, according to the museum’s curator.
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From an article by David Prudames, published on www.24hourmuseum.org.uk on 16th December 2004:
A Stone Age hand axe dating back 500,000 years has been discovered at a quarry in Warwickshire.
The tool was found at the Smiths Concrete Bubbenhall Quarry at Waverley Wood Farm, near Coventry, which has already produced evidence of some of the earliest known human occupants of the UK.It was uncovered in gravel by quarry manager John Green who took it to be identified by archaeologists at the University of Birmingham.
“We are very excited about this discovery,” enthused Professor David Keen of the university’s Archaeology Field Unit.
