FROM THE time that man first made his appearance in Britain until about 2500 BC is known as the Palaeolithic or Old Stone Age, during which period only the most primitive of roughly shaped stone or flint tools and weapons were used.
There were few, if any, permanent habitation sites, and temporary or natural shelters, such as caves, were made use of, as the scanty population spent almost the whole time on the move in search of food, by hunting and gathering wild fruits.
Consequently the remains of this period are scanty and unspectacular, but the odd flint axe or spearhead can turn up at almost any place over which Palaeolithic man may have passed.
