Only one other handaxe of this type has been found that is bigger

Front Garden Yields Ancient Tools

The Britons of 250,000 years ago were a good deal more sophisticated than they are sometimes given credit for, new archaeological evidence suggests.

It comes in the form of giant flint handaxes that have been unearthed at a site at Cuxton in Kent.

The tools display exquisite, almost flamboyant, workmanship not associated with this period until now.

The axes - one of which measured 307mm (1ft) in length - were dug up from old sand deposits in a front garden.

“It is a site where there would once have been a slow-moving river,” explained Dr Francis Wenban-Smith, from the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins at the University of Southampton…

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