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Archaeology
Discover your past...Since 4000BC and the Mesolithic period of hunter gatherers, our ancestors' activities have left their mark across the Mendip plateau - an area abundant in ancient, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Medieval field monuments.
Humps and bumps in the fields today are from the Neolithic period and flint tools can be found scattered through ploughed-up land. Charterhouse is important for its Roman history (43AD-410AD) with a fort, settlement and a slip road onto the Fosseway - all for the exploitation of lead in what is now our major asset - the Blackmoor nature reserve.
Lead mining continued through to the Victorian era. Limestone walls enclosed the land and road building has lead to quarrying for stone.
Woodland plantations and reservoirs below the escarpment have all added to the landscape history and area's beauty. On Blackdown evidence of the cunning activity deployed to foil the Luftwaffe in the Second World War exists - Mendip has some very distinctive archaeology!