Date Range

Blick Mead is categorized as a Mesolithic site and indeed it is, however, the date range that has been discovered at the site is one of its most fascinating aspects. Using Carbon Dating from a number of different trenches and materials, the Team have discovered a period of activity ranging from nearly 8,000BC up to approx 3,300BC. The full list of carbon dates is shown below but what it signifies most is that this was an area to which people returned to over and over again for almost 4,000 years, spanning nearly the entire Mesolithic period and stretching across the important research topic of Britain moving into the Neolithic period.

This exceptional date range has enabled researchers to study the whole of this site from its beginnings to the end of the Mesolithic period. There are clear changes within the structure and use of the landscape as time goes by which has proven to be incredibly important to everyone studying the Mesolithic period in Britain. The opportunity to study a complete Mesolithic period site in its entirety does not come along very often.

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