A new archaeological discovery in the UK's North Yorkshire proved that neolithic people had been manufacturing salt in the region around 6,000 years ago, before the building of Stonehenge and over two thousand years earlier than previously thought, making it one of the oldest salt-processing sites in western Europe.
The excavations at a farm near the town of Loftus unearthed evidence of salt-processing, including three hearths, broken shards of Neolithic pottery with traces of salt, stone artefacts and a storage pit, all dating back to around 3,800 BC.
The earliest previously known salt site in the UK was dated back to 1400 BC. Older hubs were discovered in Poland and the Balkans, but no comparable ones were found in the UK.
This makes the discovery of the 6,000-year-old salt processing site in the country "spectacular and of national significance".
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