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Friday, 18 February 2022

A rower has been describing the moment he discovered a little piece of history on the Thames at Brentford

Simon Hunt was prepping his boat on the banks of the river last year when he spotted what turned out to be part of a human leg bone

Carbon dating has since indicated it to be more than 5,000 years old, meaning the person lived at the end of the Stone Age.

 Simon says he wasn’t prepared for that news.