Hidden Britain AtlasOpen the map
All places › Bigfoot & Hominids
Bigfoot & Hominids

Boxgrove Man

Boxgrove, West Sussex

A shin bone half a million years old, among butchered horse bones.

In 1993 archaeologists in a quarry at Boxgrove found a human shin bone, and later two teeth. They belonged to Homo heidelbergensis, an early human species, and are about 500,000 years old.

Read the full story, see it on the map, get directions and find what else is nearby in the free Hidden Britain Atlas map.

Open Boxgrove Man on the mapReport a sighting here
When
c. 500,000 years ago
Where
50.8600, -0.7100
Group
Bigfoot & Hominids

Visiting

The quarry is private; finds are shown at the Natural History Museum.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

Buy on AmazonAll books by Cale Mills

Nearby mysteries