Dig reveals 6,000-year-old salt hub in North Yorkshire

Archaeologist says neolithic discovery may be among oldest salt-processing sites in western EuropeNeolithic people were manufacturing salt in Britain almost 6,000 years ago, before the building ofStonehenge and more than two millennia earlier than was first thought, a new archaeological discovery suggests.Excavations at a site at Street House farm in North Yorkshire have revealed evidence of the earliest salt production site ever found in the UK and one of the first of its kind in western Europe, dating to around 3,800BC.Continue reading...
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