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<< Text Pages >> Happisburgh - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Norfolk

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Multi-periodSite Name: Happisburgh
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.716 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Norfolk Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
 Nearest Village: Happisburgh
Map Ref: TG379315
Latitude: 52.828470N  Longitude: 1.529984E
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Flint implements and butchered bones have been found along Happisburgh Beach. Some of the finds are the oldest evidence of Hominids in the UK going back 700,000 years. (now being reported as "either 840,000 or 950,000 years ago")

More at the British Museum

Note: Date of Happisburgh finds put back to "either 840,000 or 950,000 years ago"
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Footprints in time Podcast with Nick Ashton by Andy B on Saturday, 15 July 2017
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Curator Nick Ashton discusses the earliest human occupation of Britain with Iszi Lawrence.
British Museum 28 March 2017

Featuring snippets from Nick’s sell-out Members’ lecture in January, the fourth episode of Membercast examines the British Museum’s 15-year-old research project that began after the discovery of a family of footprints in Happisburgh, Norfolk.

http://blog.britishmuseum.org/the-british-museum-membercast-footprints-in-time/
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First humans arrived in Britain 250,000 years earlier than thought by Andy B on Thursday, 08 July 2010
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Archaeologists digging on a Norfolk beach found stone tools that show the first humans were living in Britain much earlier than previously thought. A spectacular haul of ancient flint tools has been recovered from a beach in Norfolk, pushing back the date of the first known human occupation of Britain by up to 250,000 years.

While digging along the north-east coast of East Anglia near the village of Happisburgh, archaeologists discovered 78 pieces of razor-sharp flint shaped into primitive cutting and piercing tools.

The stone tools were unearthed from sediments that are thought to have been laid down either 840,000 or 950,000 years ago, making them the oldest human artefacts ever found in Britain.

More, with a video at The Guardian.

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