Chuck Bryant
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Because that's when it was.
That's when a trawler called the Kalinda was fishing off the coast of Norfolk, came along, and again, a big old chunk of moorlog was hauled in in the net, and they were digging through that.
And this guy's got a great name.
The skipper of the Kalinda's name was Pilgrim Lockwood.
Hi, Pilgrim Lockwood checking in.
And who do you think you are?
So Pilgrim Lockwood is busting up this peat with a shovel, just like out of a movie, hits something hard, reaches in and finds.
And this is the kind of discovery that all of a sudden, like you said, everyone's going to be like, OK, there's really something happening here.
Because it was an eight and a half inch long harpoon head, a harpoon point carved with hands out of an antler.
At first they were like, OK, I mean, this is kind of cool.
And they even offered it to the British Museum.
But they said, no, we've got some harpoons.