Possible Bronze Age finds unearthed in roadworks
If this stone proves to be Bronze Age, it means humans were settled in the area for longer than archaeologists previously believedArchaeologists have unearthed a loom weight believed to date to the Bronze Age during an excavation.
The find was made at a dig at the Highways England work on the A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet on the Cambridgeshire-Bedfordshire border. The only pre-Iron Age objects previously discovered in the area have been stone arrowheads, experts said. Museum of London Archaeology project manager Simon Markus said: "We make new discoveries every day."Previously uncovered evidence suggests to human settlement starting to appear during the late Middle Age
The finds help "build an incredibly detailed picture of what life was like" in this part of Britain thousands of years ago, the MOLA team said.
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