‘Truly Significant’ Paleolithic Artifacts Discovered During Highway works
Archaeologists have discovered a set of "really significant" Stone Age artefacts during excavations
The excavations, which are taking place along the A66, a major road that runs west to east across the area linking the counties of North Yorkshire and Cumbria
The remains include a prehistoric settlement, a possible early medieval building and Roman-era artefacts
The works are being carried out in collaboration with the Oxford Cotswold Archeology (OCA) Partnership, a government-owned organisation
Now the archeology team tells Newsweek that during the excavation it found a pit containing four prehistoric flint tools.
The objects are of a type that were made and used throughout Europe in the Upper Palaeolithic period
(The third and final subdivision of the Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age), covering the latter part of the last Ice Age.
According to archaeologists, these tools could possibly be 10,000 to 14,000 years old.
Two prehistoric artefacts were found during the A66 excavations in northern England.