Ancient
Peoples Have Been Roaming our Countryside for 900,000 Years
Prehistoric Britain has been a transient home to various human species for nearly a million years. The earliest known human presence dates back to approximately 900,000 years ago at Happisburgh in Norfolk, evidenced by stone tools and footprints likely left by Homo antecessor.
The oldest discovered human fossils in Britain, about 500,000 years old, belong to Homo heidelbergensis and were found at Boxgrove in Sussex.
Until around 425,000 years ago, during the Anglian Glaciation, Britain remained physically connected to the European continent via the Weald-Artois Anticline, a natural chalk ridge linking South East England with northern France.
Mesolithic Era
Neolithic Era
Bronze and Iron Ages
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