User:Difference engine/Clacton Spear
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Clacton Spear | |
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Material | Wood |
Created | Lower Paleolithic |
Discovered | 1911 Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom |
Present location | Natural History Museum, London |
The Clacton Spear is a fragment of a wooden spear discovered in Clacton-on-Sea in 1911. It is estimated to be 450,000 years old. It is the oldest spear and oldest wooden artifact to be found in Britain, and among the oldest wooden artifacts in the world.