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===Prehistory=== Herm was first found in the [[Mesolithic]] period (between 10,000 and 8,000 BC), when hunters were in search of food.<ref name="History">{{cite web | url=http://herm.com/files/pdf/History_-_16th_to_21st_Century.pdf | title=History β Up to the 16th Century | publisher=Herm Island | access-date=28 December 2013 | archive-date=2 January 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102200403/http://herm.com/files/pdf/History_-_16th_to_21st_Century.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref> In the [[Neolithic]] and [[Bronze Age]]s, settlers arrived; the remains of [[chamber tomb]]s have been found on the island, and may be seen today; specifically on the Common, and the Petit and Grand Monceau;<ref name="History"/> it has been suggested that the northern end of the island, i.e. the Common, was set apart for burials.<ref name="Durham"/> After a three-year project by the [[University of Durham]], supported by specialists from the [[University of Cambridge]], the [[University of Oxford]], and the Guernsey museum, they stated that the "density of tombs suggests that the northern end of Herm may have been a place set apart for funerary activity".<ref name="Durham">{{cite web | url=http://www.dur.ac.uk/herm.project/ | title=Introduction | publisher=Durham University | access-date=31 December 2013}}</ref> [[File:Roberts Cross Herm.jpg|thumb|right|A prehistoric grave, known as Robert's Cross]]
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