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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Vishwam Sankaran

Archaeologists baffled by discovery of 25 strange large pits dotting London countryside

Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA)

Archaeologists are bewildered by the discovery of over two dozen large prehistoric pits near London dated to about 8,500 to 7,700 years ago in what they claim to be a “nationally important prehistoric site”.

These pits from Linmere in Bedfordshire have been dated to the Middle Stone Age – a period from which very little is known on what life was like at the time in Britain.

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