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| Archaelogical Finds >> UK >> October 2005 >> Walker discovers 5,000-year-old log path on moor by Emma Dunlop. Yorkshire Post Today. 6th October 2005. Find to shed new light on Neolithic man FOR 5,000 years one of the world's oldest ever footpaths has remained a hidden secret, locked deep beneath the earth in South Yorkshire. That was until walker Mick Oliver quite literally stumbled across it while one day traipsing across Hatfield Moor, near Doncaster, shortly after it was re-opened to walkers in October last year. "I looked down and I could see a straight line. I thought, that's unusual, maybe it's a bog oak � a fossilised tree � so I'll go and have a look," said the retired town and country planning officer. "But when I got there I could see seven parallel poles of pine lined up on the floor. This was most unusual. I knew what I was looking at was old. Full article can be read here. |
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