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A child found a 50,000-year-old Neanderthal ax on the beach and kept it at home.
The pristine condition of the ax led the museum curator to suspect that it had been protected underwater for thousands of years.
For three years, 6-year-old Ben Witten kept a shiny rock he picked up on Shoreham Beach in his room, unaware that he had a truly valuable item.
He later went to Worthing Museum for a Stone Age exhibition where objects were on display that looked very much like what he thought was just a cool rock on the beach.
“I just thought it looked different to all the other pebbles and rocks,” he told the BBC.
His family contacted museum curator James Sainsbury, who didn't expect much. He told Live Science this wasn't the first time he'd received an email about a beach find.
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