
How excited was I to see these 10,000 year old hazelnuts from Howick at the British Museum? Actually, to an apparently eccentric and faintly unseemly degree.
How excited was I to see these 10,000 year old hazelnuts from Howick at the British Museum? Actually, to an apparently eccentric and faintly unseemly degree.
Notes on site
Replica Mesolithic hut built at site of Howick excavation.
The Howick Mesolithic House.
Britain’s Oldest House? A Journey into the Stone Age
A Mesolithic Settlement at Howick, Northumberland.
More details of the excavation.
Amateur archaeologists John Davies and Jim Hutchinson discovered Mesolithic flint artefacts eroding from a cliff-edge at Howick, Northumberland. This prompted a detailed investigation of the site by archaeologists from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne during the summers of 2000 and 2002. The remains of a Mesolithic hut were discovered ....