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.[1]
Location | Oldbury hillfort near Ightham |
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Region | Kent |
Coordinates | 51°17′9.8″N 0°16′9.6″E / 51.286056°N 0.269333°E |
History | |
Periods | Middle Palaeolithic |
Cultures | Mousterian |
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.[2]
The site is open to the public and owned by the National Trust.[3]
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