There is considerable evidence of our ancestors’ working the stones in the field next to The Lacket Cottage. These lines of depressions appear to have been made in the process of splitting the stones. Notice how similar they appear and that they are all in a line, which appears to follow the beginnings of a crack in the stone.
One wonders what use they were intending for the stones they liberated from these boulders.
The nearby outcropping of chert nodules (a stone similar to flint) would have made a ready source of stone tools and weapons. Perhaps these depressions were carved with such tools.
Ancestors at Work
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