The Stone Age

Flint Long-BladesAmongst the objects recovered were a number of flints dating to the end of the last Ice Age, a period which archaeologists call the Late Upper Palaeolithic (12,000-10,000BC). At this time Britain was still joined to mainland Europe.

The long bladed flints would havebeen used as knives and may have been brought to the site by people hunting and gathering along rivers like the Thames.

A scatter of pits was found, dating from the Neolithic period(4000-2400BC). By this time Britain was an island and people had started to grow crops and keep animals. Some of the pits contained deliberately broken and placed objects such as pots.