A 10,000-YEAR-OLD hazelnut shell found on Petersfield Heath is evidence of an ancient community there, new results have found.
The charred shell is one of three seemingly unpromising items sent off for radiocarbon analysis after the first excavation in September.
The investigations are now complete into the shell, a piece of charcoal from the lid of the Bronze Age coffin unearthed in one of the historic burial mounds, and a waterlogged twig of birch.
And archaeologists at the helm of the People of the Heath project are excited by these initial findings which they say cast important light on dates....
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