Oldbury rock shelters
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The Oldbury rock shelters are a complex of Middle Palaeolithic sites situated on the slopes of Oldbury Hill, the hill on which lies Oldbury Camp, an Iron Age hillfort near Ightham in Kent.[1]
The caves were occupied by Mousterian flint tool manufacturers around 50,000 years ago and examples of their characteristic bout-coupé handaxes were found there during excavations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.[2]
The site is open to the public and owned by the National Trust.[3][4]
References
- ↑ Archaeological Sites Kent - Historic-Kent.co.uk
- ↑ Iron Age: Here's History Kent
- ↑ Oldbury Hill - National Trust
- ↑ Oldbury Kent - Freedom 2 Explore