14 DAY TRIAL // An 8,000-year-old charred frog led and several fish bones have been unearthed at an archaeological site at a distance of about one mile (1.6 kilometers) from Stonehenge.
Researchers at the University of Buckingham say that, all things considered, these remains were left behind by people who lived in the area in the Mesolithic era.
What's more, they argue that, to their knowledge, the frog and fish remains found at this site are the oldest documented evidence of people cooking and eating frogs.
“It would appear that thousands of years ago people were eating a Heston Blumenthal-style menu on this site, one-and-a-quarter miles from Stonehenge, consisting of toads' legs, aurochs [i.e. the ancestors of domestic cattle], wild boar and red deer with hazelnuts for main, another course of salmon and trout and finishing off with blackberries,” says researcher David Jacques, as cited by Daily Mail.
“This is significant for our understanding of the way people were living around 5,000 years before the building of Stonehenge,” he adds.