A nine year-old boy walking on a beach in England recently found an axe that is believed to be 60,000 years old.
It’s amazing that he spotted it because it’s not very big and it didn’t have a handle or anything.
His dad brought him and the axe to a local museum and officials there confirmed the authenticity of the find. This kid has a future as a treasure hunter.
FOX News reported:
9-year-old boy finds 60,000-year-old axe at Shoreham Beach in England
A young boy from England found a shiny item on a beach that turned out to be a “rare” ancient item dating back to the late Middle Paleolithic era.
The boy — identified by Worthing Museum as Ben Witten, now 9 years old — discovered a shiny rock at Shoreham Beach in Sussex.
“I was looking around and I saw this shiny flint rock. I just thought it looked different [from] all the other different pebbles and stones,” he told the BBC…
A trip to Worthing Museum changed everything for the boy…
The item turned out to be a hand axe from the late Middle Paleolithic period, an era dating back between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago, according to a Nov. 21 Facebook post by Worthing Museum.
The museum said that the item was “almost certainly made by a Neanderthal.”
Here’s a BBC video report:
A boy who found a shiny rock while playing on Shoreham Beach has been told the item is a Neanderthal hand axe that could be 60,000 years old.
More here: https://t.co/1AKRXuQz2T pic.twitter.com/owTS4u5Ea7
— BBC Sussex (@BBCSussex) November 28, 2024
What an amazing find.
9-year-old boy finds 60,000-year-old axe at Shoreham Beach in England https://t.co/mmyMVePVVK
— Breaking News (@jooilong) December 1, 2024
You never know what kind of ancient treasures could be right under your nose in the most open of places. This kid deserves a lot of credit just for noticing.
