London's oldest structure unearthed

[Bob The Skutter]

ScienceDaily (Aug. 14, 2009) — London's oldest timber structure has been unearthed by archaeologists from Archaeology South-East (part of the Institute of Archaeology at University College London). It was found during the excavation of a prehistoric peat bog adjacent to Belmarsh Prison in Plumstead, Greenwich, in advance of the construction of a new prison building. Radiocarbon dating has shown the structure to be nearly 6,000 years old and it predates Stonehenge by more than 500 years.

I haven't seen this reported anywhere else, but to be honest I haven't looked yet.
It looks to be a trackway to make it easy to walk across the bog, there have been others found round the country but the way this reads this is the earliest found.

 

[Australis]

This is pretty cool. Imagine people living on the one site for so long.

--Australis, fan of Time Team (closest we'll get to time travel)

 

[Mark de Vries]

Pretty cool. When readings things like this I always try to imagine what the area looked like at that time, and how enormously it has changed.

--Australis, fan of Time Team (closest we'll get to time travel)

I loved Time Team when Discovery broadcast it years ago. Does it still exist?

 

[Deckerd]

Time Team's been running for ever.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Time Team's been running for ever.

And despite the fact I rarely watch, long may it do so.

 

[Deckerd]

I catch up on More 4 which does back-to-backs every so often.

 

[Australis]

They only started showing it on free-to-air a year or two ago, runs all the time. I really like it.

 

[T J]

Yeah, and the timber structure sounds interesting too.

 

[Barbreader]

Getting back to the original post... Cool just because it's old, and cool because that wood will tell us A LOT about the climate and weather at that time.

 

[Doran]

Getting back to the original post... Cool just because it's old, and cool because that wood will tell us A LOT about the climate and weather at that time.

They did't perhaps find a detached android head there did they? I seem to be missing one