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View of Golden Cap from Doghouse Hill

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View of Golden Cap from Doghouse Hill

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Location: Chideock, West Dorset, Dorset, South West England, England, United Kingdom

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Mike Cree

September 8, 2024

People lived on Doghouse Hill on the Golden Cap estate up to 10,000 years ago.

Finds included a stone hearth, fire pit and pot shards from Bronze Age periods (2,500 to 1,000BC) and others from the Mesolithic Age (10,000 to 4,000BC)

Martin Papworth, from the National Trust, said: "Although it's a stunning coastal site now, 6,000 to 8,000 years ago this area would have been over a mile inland.

To find ancient pottery decorated with fingernail impressions and touch them with one's own hand, that's real contact with the past

Martin Papworth, National Trust

"The Mesolithic people who lived on top of Doghouse hill would have pre-dated farming, so would have been hunter-gatherers using these flints to work hides, cut meat and scrape fat from animal skins.

"After millennia of erosion, it's at risk of disappearing into the sea itself."

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Location: Chideock, West Dorset, Dorset, South West England, England, United Kingdom

View of Golden Cap from Doghouse Hill

1. Thorncombe Beacon – Golden Cap Summit loop from West Bay

2. Thorncombe Beacon – West Bay Harbour loop from Chideock

3. Thorncombe Beacon – View of Seatown and Eype Beach loop from Eype

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