Early Bronze Age Antler Pick

3D Model

This pick was discovered during excavations in what is now the Big Park in Peacehaven. It appears to have been deliberately placed in a rectangular pit alongside a trackway to mark the creation of the (at least) 500m long route used to move people and animals to grazing areas in the lowlands to the uplands. It shows considerable wear and small cut marks are visible in the middle - similar marks were found on picks found at Grimes Graves and may have been made whilst extracting flint from the chalk.