Today’s foraging foray brought us to this Bronze Age cooking mound and instantly transported us into the company of our ancient ancestors.
They’ll have been walking through the very same bits of forest, picking the same plants, mushrooms, and nuts as us - only 4000 years earlier.
This ‘burnt mound’ is full of ash, charcoal and fire crazed rocks which were used to heat water for cooking whatever their forage produced and possibly the odd sauna. Archaeological finds here included a flint flake and shards of a pottery jar from the late pre-Roman Iron Age.
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