Solar Panels Clacton-on-Sea

Deposits at Clacton have provided important evidence for the Lower Palaeolithic occupation of Britain by Homo heidelbergensis during the Hoxnian Interglacial, around 424-375,000 years ago, including stone tools of the titular Clactonian industry. At this time Britain had a temperate decidious forest environment and climate similar to today. The “Clacton Spear”, a wooden (yew) spear found in these deposits around Clacton in 1911 is the world’s oldest known wooden spear.

There is plentiful archaeological evidence of scattered settlement in the area, including Beaker Folk traces at Point Clear to the south and round houses (as cropmarks) near the A133 extension from Weeley to the north. There may have been a pre-Roman (i.e. Celtic) settlement at Gt. Clacton and there were almost certainly scattered farmsteads as the important British Celtic settlement at Colchester was only about 15 miles (24 km) away. No traces of substantial Roman settlement have been found at Clacton though there are several Roman villa sites nearby (e.g. Alresford, Wivenhoe, Brightlingsea). After the Anglo-Saxon migration and the foundation of the kingdom of Essex, a village called Claccingtun (“the village of Clacc’s or Clacca’s people”) was established. No pre-Norman buildings survive today. The Domesday Book of 1086 records the village as Clachintuna.