Channel 4 Time Team expert: Marlow finds are 5,000 years old

AN EXPERT from Channel 4's Time Team has confirmed that evidence uncovered at a Little Marlow site shows human activity from up to 5,000 years ago.

The discoveries came as a great surprise to members of Archaeology in Marlow, who began the digs at Warren Wood expecting to be finding medieval items.

Yet, Paul Blinkhorn, a pottery specialist from the popular television programme has told the organisation that some flint pieces date back to between the late Neolithic age - 3000 to 2500BC - to the early Bronze Age -2500 to 1800BC.

Mr Blinkhorn carried out tests on the artefacts, one of which even carried the impressions of a finger print.

AIM found 82 pieces of pottery, mainly from a pot, at the Winchbottom Road location.

The Pottery was dated from the late Bronze Age (1200 to 800BC) and the early Iron Age (800 to 500BC).
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