SIGNS OF FIFE

NEW ESTATE GIVES UP 10,000-YEAR-OLD SECRETS

- BY ALISON CAMPSIE

TRACES of Scotland's earliest residents from 10,000 years ago have been found on a new housing development.

The signs of life have been found on land at Guardbridge in Fife, close to the River Eden.

It has attracted people since hunter gatherers roamed the area in the Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic and stopped to build fires and knap their flints.

The site continued to attract human activity over the millennia, with evidence of Neolithic farmers, Bronze Age weavers and jewellers and Iron Age fort dwellers also emerging.

Today, people have moved on to the land to take up residence in a mix of two and three-bedroom homes, with up to 335 houses to be built over time.