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December 22, 2004
Fylingdale Top
What may be the world's oldest landscape painting has been discovered after a moorlands fire by RAF Flyingdales.
The crude carving by an unknown bronze-age artist is one of more than 2,400 historically important artefacts revealed by the scorching last year of a swath of the North York Moors, where until now only 30 scheduled ancient monuments have been designated.
"It turns out to be an astonishing archaeological landscape," said Nick Redfern, regional inspector of ancient monuments for English Heritage, who was left open-mouthed when the hidden treasures of Fylingdale Top were revealed, near the Anglo-American Star Wars defence base.
"It turns out to be an astonishing archaeological landscape," said Nick Redfern, regional inspector of ancient monuments for English Heritage, who was left open-mouthed when the hidden treasures of Fylingdale Top were revealed, near the Anglo-American Star Wars defence base.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 22, 2004 09:27 AM
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That is a dandy one. Nice to know the lads were out there 3,000 years ago scratching on rock as they lay upon the hillside at leisure sipping on the mead.
Posted by: Alan at December 22, 2004 03:01 PM