- The Natural History Museum in London currently has the Clacton Spear on display, where its age is estimated to be 420,000 years old.
- This again came off in 2013 and was re-attached.[1] It is on display at the Natural History Museum, London where its age is stated as 420,000 years.
- Made around 420,000 years ago and unearthed in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, this yew spear point is the oldest preserved wooden spear in the world.
- Natural History Museum (NHM) brought the Clacton spear to the Conservation Centre with the request that its deformation be rectified.
- Besides Schöningen, a spear fragment from Clacton-on-Sea, England dating from 400,000 years ago can be found at the Natural History Museum, London.
- The Clacton Spear: The Last One. Hundred Y ears. Lu Allington-Jones a. a The Conservation Centre, The Natural History Museum
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- The Natural History & Science Museums are a fun and affordable day out in London, and one of my family's favourite things to do in the city!
- In the past, many academics doubted whether the Clacton Spear could be a spear point due to its age, which predates modern humans.
- Lu Allington-Jones The Conservation Centre, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BDCorrespondencel.allington-jones@nhm.ac.uk.