00:00Archaeologists say people may have lived in the British uplands up to 400 years earlier
00:06than previously thought. Excavations last year at Hardin Quarry in Northumberland National Park
00:12suggest human activity on the Cheviot Hills as far back as 2400 BC.
00:18Archaeologist Clive Goodman said people from this era were already known to live along river valleys,
00:23but the uplands were not believed to have been cleared for farming and settlements
00:27until late into the Bronze Age. He added that the new findings suggest people did exploit the
00:33Cheviot Hills earlier than expected and said this could also be part of a bigger UK-wide pattern.
00:40The team found platforms where roundhouses may have once stood.
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