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Gristhorpe Man

Gristhorpe, North Yorkshire

A Bronze Age man buried in a hollowed-out oak tree.

In 1834 a burial mound near Scarborough was opened and found to hold a coffin carved from an oak trunk. Inside was a tall, elderly man who died around 2000 BC, with a bronze dagger, flint tools and a bark vessel.

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When
c. 2000 BC
Where
54.2200, -0.3500
Group
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Visiting

The Rotunda Museum, Scarborough, holds his remains.

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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