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Oldbury rock shelters
51.2861° N, 0.2693° E
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The Oldbury rock shelters are a complex of Middle Palaeolithic sites situated on the slopes of Oldbury hillfort near Ightham in the English county of Kent. They 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. The site is open to the public and owned by the National Trust.
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Mousterian occupation
c. 50,000 years ago
Archaeological excavations
19th and 20th centuries
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