Museum offers public chance to handle prehistoric axes

The Nottinghamshire public are being offered a rare opportunity to handle a 75,000-year-old axe and other ancient artefacts at a local museum.

The University of Nottingham Museum of Archaeology is putting on a Prehistory Day on 23 February 2011, in conjunction with the BBC’s Hands On History.

Full details at:
news.bbc.co.uk/local/nottingham/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_9398000/9398611.stm