{"id":17223,"count":4,"description":"Abbeville (Abbekerke in Dutch) is a commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France.\nAbbeville is located on the Somme River, 20\u00a0km (12\u00a0mi) from its modern mouth in the English Channel, and 45\u00a0km (28\u00a0mi) northwest of Amiens. In the medieval period, it was the lowest crossing point on the Somme and it was nearby that Edward III's army crossed shortly before the Battle of Cr\u00e9cy in 1346, but resist to the invaders..\nAbbeville was the capital of the former province of Ponthieu. Today, it is one of the three sub-prefectures of the Somme department.\nThe name Abbeville has been adopted to name a category of early stone tools. These stone tools are also known as handaxes. Various handaxes were found near Abbeville by Jacques Boucher de Perthes during the 1830s and he was the first to describe the stones in detail, pointing out in the first publication of its kind, that the stones were chipped deliberately by early man, so as to form a tool. These earliest stone tools found in...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/abbeville\/","name":"Abbeville","slug":"abbeville","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/17223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=17223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}