Great Tosson : Palaeolithic and Mesolithic (500,000 BC – 5000 BC)

There are no recorded sites on the Northumberland Sites and Monuments Record (NSMR) for either the Palaeolithic or Mesolithic periods within the Tosson study area, though this probably reflects the lack of detailed research, rather than genuine absence of occupation.

The recent landscape study of the Milfield basin in north Northumberland indicated that Mesolithic populations inhabited a wide range of environments and ecological zones (Waddington 1999, 104 -6). The Fell Sandstone uplands may have been wooded throughout the Mesolithic, and it is possible that hunting and foraging parties visited these areas on a seasonal basis