In-situ landsurfaces found in extraction area

As out test pits are opened up ahead of extraction they are revealing in-situ landsurfaces across the entire north-western part of the quarry.

In each test pit small quantities of in-situ knapping debitage are present showing that this was an area actively occupied by Middle Pleistocene humans. Perhaps on the fringe of key hunting and butchery areas. We have yet to locate these in the Valdoe environs but the quantities of background evidence in the form of diffuse scatter of flakes makes their presence locally a virtual certainty.