400,000-Year-Old Hand Axe Riverbank Beneath Centre Parcs Elvedon

A Stone Age riverbank hidden inside a modern holiday village? Time Team heads to Centre Parcs Elvedon to unearth one of Britain’s rarest Paleolithic sites. Over three days, the team and British Museum archaeologist Nick Ashton trace a prehistoric river through an old clay pit, uncover a cobble “beach,” and make a surprise discovery of two distinct activity layers. Watch Phil test razor‑sharp flint flakes, John craft a spear from a single shard, and geophysics map a paleo channel that may link Elvedon to nearby Barnum. Environmental sampling hunts for vole teeth to date the deposits, a six‑metre auger hits mysterious black organic mud, and a broken hand axe story reveals how ancient toolmaking could fail in an instant. What else lies in the clay, and how do these tiny finds rewrite a 400,000‑year timeline? Dive into the dig, follow the clues, and see how fragments become a lost landscape. Watch now to discover what Time Team uncovers beneath the woodland paths of Suffolk. #TimeTeam #StoneAge #Archaeology #Suffolk #FlintKnapping #Paleolithic #Geophysics #CentreParcs