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Swanscome Handaxe Statue

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Post by grendel Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:02 pm

Swanscome is of course home of the handaxe and the local council seem to have taken it to heart. Never even knew it existed till yesterday when I stumbled upon it.

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Post by the barnacle Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:01 pm

never knew myself, thnks for the info
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Post by Lumpendoodle Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:22 pm

That must have been some size of billet that they used to knap that.

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Post by skalla Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:44 pm

that is a seriously cool piece of public art.

and Lumpendoodle, that wasnt such a bad quip Smile
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