Spot where ancient people scanned the landscape for prey is now farmland near the Devon village of Lustleigh
A stone age viewpoint from which ancient people scanned the landscape for prey has been pinpointed by archaeologists and volunteer helpers on a windswept Devon moor.
Emma Stockley, who is leading a project to find and protect lithic scatters – areas where flints have been worked on – said the discovery was exciting. She said the sites tended to be in the sort of places where modern visitors might stop to rest. “Imagine you go to Dartmoor and want to find a picnic spot. The chances are you will be choosing a spot that is very similar in nature to the spots in the landscape our hunter-gatherer communities chose.
Stockley said she was fascinated by the idea of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers on Dartmoor. “This is the last time we were hunter-gatherers roaming the landscape following migrating prey for food, foraging and making use of the environment in quite a sustainable way.”
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