Hill top habitation
The terraces of the Thames, along with Winter Hill were the first areas colonised by the nomadic hunter-gatherers of the Old Stone Age (350,000 – 10,000 BC).
Habitation at the site has continued ever since, as is evident from the Bronze Age tumuli (burial mounds) at nearby Cock Marsh. Indeed, huge amounts of Roman pottery were removed from the foot of Winter Hill in 1906, which is thought to have been the site of a ferry across the River Thames.