Archaeological Evidence of the Gamlingay area in Prehistoric times

Archaeological Evidence of the Gamlingay area in Prehistoric times

Palaeolithic c.500,000 – 10,001 BC, Mesolithic c.10,000 - 4,001 BC, Neolithic 4,000 - 2,501 BC

Text Box: Palaeolithic flint borer, graver, scraper, 6 tools
Mesolithic flint core, scraper, 10 blades, flakes, knife, knife blade, tool, arrowheads, axe, axehead, Text Box: 2 Mesolithic flint core tools, 7 scrapers, blade and microliths Text Box: Neolithic greenstone axehead Text Box: Mesolithic flint arrowhead Text Box: Neolithic flint cores, blades arrowhead Text Box: ? Palaeolithic enclosure Text Box: Mesolithic flint hammerstone, 5 tranchet axes, core, tools
Neolithic ditch, pit, pottery Text Box: Mesolithic flint tool, arrowheads Text Box: 4 Mesolithic flint tools
3 Neolithic flint knives,
barbed arrowhead,
2 fabricators, borer,
tool, 7 scrapers
and flakes

Approximate location Source: Cambridgeshire County Council HER Bernard O’Connor 2009