 There is evidence of occupation from the Neolithic period in Cheddar . Britain 's oldest complete human skeleton , Cheddar Man , estimated to be 9 @,@ 000 years old , was found in Cheddar Gorge in 1903 . Older remains from the Upper Late Palaeolithic era ( 12 @,@ 000 – 13 @,@ 000 years ago ) have been found . There is some evidence of a Bronze Age field system at the Batts Combe quarry site . There is also evidence of Bronze Age barrows at the mound in the Longwood valley , which if man @-@ made it is likely to be a field system . The remains of a Roman villa have been excavated in the grounds of the current vicarage . 
