Archaeologists, racing against time to date a burial mound on the cliffs at Peacehaven Heights in East Sussex before it collapses into the sea, have found activity spanning back to 8000 years BC - the time of some of the island's earliest hunter-gatherers.
The excavations, which were carried out between April 19 and May 4 2008, have uncovered tools dating back to the Mesolithic period (8000 – 4000 BC) when the area may have been wooded and people were hunting animals, foraging for nuts and berries and making their camps in the area.
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