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The material is sharp and barely patinated, consisting of cores and end-scrapers, large and pygmy gravers, raw material in the form of blades, and two picks, the predecessors of the neolithic axe.

The 10-year-old picked the item up at a National Trust estate, thinking it was a rock - but it turned out to be the ‘find of a lifetime’.

"It dates to the end of the Neolithic around 5000 years ago." The axe can be seen, alongside other locally found stone axes of a similar age loaned by Bolton Museum, at Horwich Heritage's "Horwich ...

A History of the World is a partnership between the BBC and the British Museum that focuses on world history, involving collaborations between teams across the BBC, and schools, museums and ...

The 10-year-old picked the item up at a National Trust estate, thinking it was a rock - but it turned out to be the ‘find of a lifetime’.