4,000 Year Old Stone Age Camp Found

from Dailymail.co.uk

Dog walker stumbles across 4,000-year-old Stone Age camp

  • Finds flint ‘flakes’ which could be from Stone Age tools
  • Archaeologists call for full excavation of the site

By CHRIS SLACK

Last updated at 12:45 PM on 12th December 2011

A team of historians believe they have unearthed evidence of a 4,000-year-old Stone Age camp – thanks to a dog walker.

Roger Hall was walking his pet at Cannock Wood in Staffordshire, when he discovered a handful of strange-shaped rocks.

Experts later identified the rocks as flint ‘flakes’, which are the off-cuts from tools crafted by Stone Age Man 4,000 years ago. . . . read more.

 

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