Recent boulder defence maintenance work in the valley (a consequence of the current War on Terror) revealed the existence (in this neck of the woods anyway) of a high civilisation which predates the Wimps by several thousand years. Wimp artefacts have always been scarce here (probably for the same reason as the lack of Roman stuff) but experts are closely examining finds of early glass shards, mummified barley husks and strange metal dishes with indentations around the rim. The dishes are marked with characters, some obliterated, and the race is on to decrypt the mysterious legend "G*in**s". Watch this space.