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Dog walker stumbles across 4,000-year-old Stone Age camp

A team of historians believe they have unearthed evidence of a 4,000-year-old Stone Age camp - thanks to a dog walker.

Roger Hall was walking his pet at Cannock Wood in Staffordshire, when he discovered a handful of strange-shaped rocks.

Experts later identified the rocks as flint 'flakes', which are the off-cuts from tools crafted by Stone Age Man 4,000 years ago.

If the discovery is confirmed, it could mark the spot of the only Neolithic camp known in the Midlands.

Roger Knowles, a member of the Council for British Archaeology, is convinced the camp could identify a link from the time when mankind changed from nomadic hunter-gatherer to village dweller....

Read entire article at Daily Mail (UK)