Hayley Roberts of Past Participate gave us a talk on the Valley of the Stones, including the Polissoir (sharpening stone). This is a large sarsen boulder where people during the Neolithic polished stone tools to a high sheen. These gave the tools more strength but also more value, in that they were objects of status that could be used for gift giving or trade. Sarsen stone is not natural to the area, having been deposited by glacial action. There are Bronze Age round houses, medieval D-shaped animal enclosures and a brickworks with kilns from about 200 years ago. PP are continuing to survey and research the deep past of this valley and surrounding landscape.
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