Oldbury rock shelters
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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox ancient site 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The site is open to the public and owned by the National Trust.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>