An ancient piece of rock art - unlike anything previously found in Eastern England - has been unearthed in a Cambridgeshire village.
The hand-sized artefact is thought to be 4,500 years old, and it was found by a woman taking part in a weekend geological course run by Cambridge University at Over.
It is a slab of weathered sandstone, with two pairs of concentric circles etched into the surface – a motif which, according to archaeologists, is typical of “grooved ware” art from the later Neolithic era, in 2,500 BC.
Other examples of grooved ware art have been discovered at sites elsewhere in the UK, but this is the first time one has turned up in the East of England.
Experts hope the find which may provide more information about the connections of the communities who inhabited the area 4,500 years ago.
Source: Cambridge News [July 16, 2010]