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Judi Lynn

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Tue Apr 14, 2020, 01:59 AM Apr 2020

LONDON might be 3,000 years older than previously believed.


By GURSIMRAN HANS
PUBLISHED: 05:18, Sat, Apr 11, 2020 | UPDATED: 05:32, Sat, Apr 11, 2020

An archaeological find just 15 metres outside the boundary of the northern edge of the historic City of London has unearthed evidence of a prehistoric ceremonial site. The city might have been home to a popular assembly for major events and rituals in the fourth millennium BC. Jon Cotton, a consultant prehistorian working with charitable company Mola told the Independent: “This remarkable collection helps to fill a critical gap in London’s prehistory.

“Archaeological evidence for the period after farming arrived in Britain rarely survives in the capital.”

London was already occupied at the time of the Roman conquest of the mid-first century, but this find puts its existence back 37 centuries.

The evidence comes from cooking pots and other such utensils found in Shoreditch.

Some of these pots were used for processing milk, the others for making a meat stew.

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https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1267760/Archaeology-news-London-older-City-history-find
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LONDON might be 3,000 years older than previously believed. (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2020 OP
So the people living at London during wnylib Apr 2020 #1

wnylib

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1. So the people living at London during
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 05:26 AM
Apr 2020

this time were contemporaries of the builders of Stonehenge. And they had domesticated cows or goats. The llnk doesn't say which kind of milk.

Wonder if the people of London and the people of Stonehenge had any trade or cultural ties. If so, we might learn more about Stonehenge from the London excavation.

Oy, just realized something. There are English people from 17th century Essex in my family tree. Wonder if any of them were descendants of those ancient London founders.

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