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Archaeologists have found the site of what they believe is one of England’s oldest houses. The Stone Age house was unearthed at Kingsmead Quarry in Horton, close to Windsor Castle, and is thought to be more than 5,000 years old.

Dr Alistair Barclay of Wessex Archaeology, said it was a rare discovery.

He said only about a dozen Neolithic or Stone Age houses had been discovered in England and the Horton house was one of the most complete examples yet found.

This house is not big by today’s standards, but it was a dramatically different from the tents that people had been living in before.

Archaeologists believe the walls of the 33ft (10m) by 16ft (5m) building were made of split logs and the pitched roof consisted of reeds or grass.

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