The boy — identified by Worthing Museum as Ben Witten, now 9 years old — discovered a shiny rock at Shoreham Beach in Sussex.

Neanderthal hand axes are rare in Sussex; this is the first to be found in years, making Ben's discovery doubly special.

It was only when the boy, now aged nine, went to Worthing Museum three weeks ago and saw the Stone Age exhibition that he realised he had a similar looking item at home. The museum, which is now ...

A boy who found a shiny rock while playing at a beach has been told the item is a Neanderthal hand axe that could be 60,000 ...

A boy who discovered a Neanderthal hand axe aged six has been told it was a “once in a lifetime find”. Ben Witten, nine, was six when he discovered an “interesting stone” on Shoreham Beach.