Neolithic

In the Neolithic period (± 9.000 to 4.800 B.C.) our regions were a swampy and marshy plain with here and there low dune chains, heath and little beech woods. Presumably, no people will have lived here. However, now and then, bold fellows with stone fist hatchets and flint weapons came from the "Houtland" to hunt water game.
At that time, the IJzer run into the sea about fifteen kilometres north of Lombardsijde.