Very nice hiking trail with a great view. It is believed that this area was already settled in the Mesolithic. However, 6,000 to 8,000 years ago, the residents of that time had a completely different view, because the area was more than a mile inland.

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Mike Cree

September 8, 2024

Quite the climb up, regardless of which side you choose.
Experts now believe 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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