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The Neolithic house at Horton is a rare and ex- from England. The Horton house is one of the
citing discovery. It is thought to be well over most complete examples yet found.
5,000 years old.
The house is thought to date to about 3,700BC.
The single story house was 9½ metres long by Pieces of pottery and flint tools from the house
6½ metres wide. The walls were probably and some nearby pits are consistent with this
made of split logs and the pitched roof would dating.
have been covered with reeds or grass.
Remains of plants show that wild foods like
Two partition walls divided the house into two. hazelnuts were being gathered. Some cereal
These walls could have supported upper floors grains show that crops were grown but there
in part of the house. are not many of them. This shows that the
change to farming was a slow one.
There are traces of what might have been a
hearth in the centre of the house. There was
not a chimney. Smoke seeped out through the
roof which was high enough to avoid catching
fire from sparks from the fire.
Wessex Archaeology
HORTON’S HIDDEN PAST
At this time, about 12,000 years ago, Britain Flint knives found at Horton
was not an island. A land-bridge still linked
Britain to the continent. This land bridge was
flooded by water from the melting ice caps
about 8,000 years ago.
Horton
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Neolithic
house
Edge of excavations
Archaeological features
Old river channel
Bronze Age field system
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Wessex Archaeology
The First Farmers
Slowly, hunting and gathering food was re-
placed by keeping animals and growing crops.
A very rare and important discovery is the site
of a house which dates to this time, the Neo-
lithic period (over 5000 years ago).
Wessex Archaeology
Iron Age and Roman
There are fewer finds from the end of the
Bronze Age and Iron Age. This shows that the
area was not used as intensively. But some cir-
cular houses have been found and they are as
large as a modern semi-detached. They would
have had conical, thatched, roofs. Grain was
stored near to some houses in small square
buildings raised on stilts.
Wessex Archaeology
A Changing Landscape
After the Romans
A Changing Landscape