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Mesolithic, Palaeolithic and EarlierSite Name: Lunt Meadows
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 3.343 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Merseyside Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Sefton  Nearest Village: Lunt
Map Ref: SD349027
Latitude: 53.516925N  Longitude: 2.983265W
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Lunt Meadows
Lunt Meadows submitted by dodomad : A typical Mesolithic tool kit. Photo Credit: Molly Toal (Vote or comment on this photo)
A recent discovery of worked flints and charred timber suggests that when stone age people reached Lunt Meadows, a beautiful site at Sefton, they liked it so much that instead of continuing as nomadic hunter-gatherers, they settled down and built permanent dwellings.

Archaeologists are still working on the site, discovered this summer during work for the Environment Agency, but preliminary carbon-dating results suggest that they are almost 8,000 years old, from the Mesolithic period, and come from at least three structures, suggesting family groups living together in a settlement which may have lasted for centuries.

As well as the worked flint, and large pebbles with a partly polished surface showing they were used as tools, the archaeologists have found quantities of chert stone which is not local, but must have been specially imported – the nearest site would be across the estuary, in what is now north Wales.

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SD3402 : Bird hide Lunt Meadow Nature Reserve by Norman Caesar
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SD3402 : Lunt Meadows Nature Reserve by Mike Pennington
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SD3402 : Bird hides have been erected at Lunt Meadow Nature Reserve by Norman Caesar
by Norman Caesar
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SD3402 : Peacock (Inachis io), Lunt Meadows by Mike Pennington
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SD3402 : Greenfinch (Carduelis chloris), Lunt Meadows by Mike Pennington
by Mike Pennington
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Re: Lunt Meadows, Sefton - The earliest settlers by Anonymous on Saturday, 16 March 2024
I hope we can keep these valuable historic sites in the uk, they are so beautiful to see and enjoy we must fight to keep them.
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Festival of Archaeology events at Lunt Meadows by Andy B on Monday, 18 July 2022
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This July, Lancashire Wildlife Trust are joining organisations and community groups across the country to take part in the Festival of Archaeology, by hosting a series of free public events at Lunt Meadows Nature Reserve in Sefton, Merseyside (at the end of the M57).

The UK’s annual Festival of Archaeology runs from July 16-31. This year’s theme is ‘Journeys’ and visitors are invited to spend time on the nature reserve, journeying through time to discover Sefton’s Stone Age heritage, while also exploring the wildlife of a nature reserve in the present.

Lunt Meadows is a haven for wildlife and doubles as a flood storage reservoir. It is owned by the Environment Agency and managed by the Lancashire Wildlife Trust. In 2012, archaeologists from National Museums Liverpool began excavating the site and discovered evidence of several Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) settlements in the nature reserve, giving a glimpse into the lives of our hunter-gatherer ancestors from 9000 years ago.

Ten years on, over 8000 artefacts have been unearthed in the excavations, with still more to discover. These discoveries have inspired a National Lottery Heritage Fund project at Lunt. The Mesolithic Modern Life Project aims to enrich the visitor experience at Lunt Meadows while also improving the site for wildlife. It is a partnership project between LWT, National Museums Liverpool, Soroptimist International Crosby and the University of Chester, Department of History and Archaeology.

Over the course, the Lunt team are holding a mixture of Stone Age, wellbeing, and wildlife-themed events.

For those interested in wildlife, Lunt Meadows will be running guided walks, with a focus on medicinal plants and their folklore on Friday, July 22 and a general wildlife walk on Monday July 25. These walks are a great opportunity to learn about how the nature reserve operates, while picking up facts and stories about the wildlife it attracts.

People who wish to try something different to a walk are encouraged to attend Tai Chi for beginners’ classes on Thursday 21 and Thursday, July 28. Tai Chi is a gentle martial art that has many links to improved physical and mental health and that takes inspiration from the natural world, so it is fitting to practise this exercise in the setting of a nature reserve.

The festival will finish with the public being invited to get involved in the search for more artefacts at Lunt, by helping to pan bags of excavated Stone Age soil collected from the settlements on Wednesday 27 and Sunday, July 31. Under the expert guidance of the Museum of Liverpool’s Curator of Prehistoric Archaeology and trained volunteers, people can drop by and find small stone tools and burnt material that has lain undiscovered in this soil for over 9000 years.

More at
https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/celebrate-merseysides-heritage-at-lunt-meadows-nature-reserve-this-july/
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Re: Lunt Meadows, Sefton - The earliest settlers by Anonymous on Monday, 23 April 2018
And now they propose a large wind farm nearby. What a disgrace. We have plenty out in Liverpool Bay.
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Re: Lunt Meadows, Sefton - The earliest settlers by Anonymous on Thursday, 13 August 2015
Hi,

Unfortunately this site will be less that 1 Km for a proposed wind farm with 12 turbines as high as 136.5 Metres (447.83 Ft), this is the height of The Radio City Tower in Liverpool, in the Lower Alt.

Who knows what else could be under the proposed wind farm site.

http://www.loweraltwindfarm.co.uk for more information.

David Weaver
Ince Blundell
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Lunt Meadows, Sefton - The earliest settlers by Andy B on Monday, 20 July 2015
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Around 8000 years ago as Britain was becoming the island that we recognise today the earliest people living here were hunter-gatherers in what is known as the Mesolithic period. Evidence for where they lived is widespread in Britain and many sites have been archaeologically excavated. However, good surviving evidence for how these people lived is restricted to a very few sites. The common view has been that they were scattered nomadic people who lived in small groups with little evidence for them building substantial settlements.

In the last ten years or so understanding of the period has begun to improve slowly with new discoveries that have modified this view. The most recent discovery in 2012-13 of rare 8,000 year old houses at Lunt Meadows, Sefton, north of Liverpool, is another important development in our understanding of a way of life that began to disappear about 6000 years ago with the introduction of farming into Britain.

More at
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/collections/archaeology/projects/lunt-meadows/
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