Time Team Excavation Site Longfurlong Farm

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One hot day in 1922 a young man called John Pull strolled across this Sussex Down.

He was the victim of a First World War gas attack and he came here looking for fresh air and a bit of peace, but what he found may be one of the very few Stoneage settlements ever discovered in England.

But he wasn't an archaeologist, he was a 23 year old gramaphone salesman, which made him highly unpopular with the archaeological elite. His work was sneered at, his finds were lost, this site was bulldozed and in a tragic twist of fate, John Pull was murdered.

Now 80 years after he first set foot on this hill, Time Team have come here to re-assess his work. Is this really the site of a prehistoric village, and what about the mysterious second site which he recorded but is now lost. Time Team, have got just three days to find out.