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Clacton Spear at the Natural History Museum, London

The Clacton Spear, or Clacton Spear Point, is the tip of a wooden spear discovered in Clacton-on-Sea in 1911. It is 400,000 years old and the oldest known worked wooden implement.[1]

  1. ^ Allington-Jones, L., (2015) Archaeological Journal, 172 (2) 273–296 The Clacton Spear – The Last One Hundred Years

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Homo heidelbergensis in Germany, France, and Greece. Oldest known spear, Clacton-on-Sea. 450 ka – 350 ka Mindel glaciation, Mindel-Riss interglacial...

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Elizabeth Allard, Commandant, Jay-wick Detachment, British Red Cross Society (Clacton-on-Sea, Essex). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties...

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Milne, Matron, Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. G. E. Morgan, Matron, Middlesex Hospital, Clacton-on-Sea M. Morgan, Matron, Q.A.I.M.N.S.R., Military Hospital, York J. M...

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organised outings to, what were in those days, such far-away places as Clacton, Felixstowe and Woburn. From the wartime salvage fund and from many money...

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