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Creswell Crags

Near Worksop, Nottinghamshire

Britain's finest Ice Age cave art, and hundreds of witch marks.

Creswell Crags is a limestone gorge full of caves used by Ice Age hunters. In 2003 researchers spotted engravings of a stag, birds and other figures, around 13,000 years old, the finest Ice Age cave art known in Britain.

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When
c. 13,000 years ago
Where
53.2630, -1.1930
Group
Bigfoot & Hominids

Visiting

Visitor centre and cave tours; booking advised.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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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.

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