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The hand ax, seen here beside a 20-pence coin, is between 40,000 and 60,000 years old. (Worthing Museum)
A Little Boy Found a Strange Stone on the Beach. Archaeologists Told Him It Was a Neanderthal's Hand Ax
The artifact is now on display at a museum in southern England. Experts say the find is "so rare that most qualified archaeologists would never find one themselves"
Sonja Anderson
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