Bigfoot & Hominids

51 places across Britain and Ireland

• Alice and Gwendoline CaveEdenvale, near Ennis, County Clare · A cut bear bone that rewrote the story of the first people in Ireland.
• Aveline's HoleBurrington Combe, Somerset · Britain's oldest known cemetery, hidden in a Mendip cave.
• Banwell Bone CavesBanwell, Somerset · A cave piled with the bones of Ice Age bison, wolves and bears.
• BarnhamNear Thetford, Suffolk · The earliest evidence of humans making fire, found in a Suffolk pit.
• Bouldnor CliffOff Yarmouth, Isle of Wight · A Stone Age village under the sea, with a mystery about wheat.
• Boxgrove ManBoxgrove, West Sussex · A shin bone half a million years old, among butchered horse bones.
• Brenin LlwydPumlumon, Ceredigion · The Grey King, a figure of mist who seizes travellers in the mountains.
• Cannock ChaseStaffordshire · Forest walkers report a Bigfoot-like creature and stranger things.
• Cathole CaveGower, Swansea · Britain's oldest known rock art, a carving of a reindeer.
• Cheddar ManGough's Cave, Somerset · Britain's oldest complete skeleton, with dark skin and blue eyes.
• Cnoc CoigIsle of Oronsay, Inner Hebrides · An ancient shell heap where Britain's last hunter-gatherers left their bones.
• Coire nan UruisgeanBen Venue, Loch Katrine · The 'Corrie of the Goblins', where half-goat wild men met.
• Coygan CaveNear Laugharne, Carmarthenshire · Where Neanderthals left their hand axes, before the quarry ate the hill.
• Creswell CragsNear Worksop, Nottinghamshire · Britain's finest Ice Age cave art, and hundreds of witch marks.
• Ferriter's CoveDingle Peninsula, County Kerry · Where the first cow bones in Ireland were found.
• Formby FootprintsFormby Point, Merseyside · Prehistoric people, deer and wild cattle walk across the beach.
• Gallagh ManNear Castleblakeney, County Galway · A bog body found with a willow rope still round his neck.
• Goldcliff FootprintsSevern Estuary, Newport · Stone Age children's footprints preserved in the estuary mud.
• Happisburgh FootprintsHappisburgh, Norfolk · The oldest human footprints outside Africa, seen for just two weeks.
• Hob HoleRunswick Bay, North Yorkshire · A cave where a hairy hob cured children's coughs.
• Hoyle's MouthNear Tenby, Pembrokeshire · A woodland cave used by Ice Age hunters.
• Kendrick's CaveGreat Orme, Llandudno · A cave that held rare Ice Age art carved on a horse's jaw.
• Kents CavernTorquay, Devon · A jawbone that may be the oldest modern human found in Britain.
• Kinloch, Isle of RumKinloch, Rum · One of the oldest settlements in Scotland, built by stone-tool makers.
• Lough BooraNear Kilcormac, County Offaly · An ancient lakeside camp found under a bog.
• Lynford QuarryNear Thetford, Norfolk · Neanderthals and woolly mammoths, side by side in an old river channel.
• Mount SandelNear Coleraine, County Londonderry · Some of the oldest known homes in Ireland.
• Nanna's CaveCaldey Island, Pembrokeshire · A cave on a monks' island, used by people for thousands of years.
• Old Croghan ManCroghan Hill, County Offaly · A very tall Iron Age man, killed and buried in a bog.
• PakefieldNear Lowestoft, Suffolk · Flint tools that pushed back the date of the first Britons.
• Pontnewydd CaveElwy Valley, Denbighshire · Neanderthal teeth from the most north-westerly early human site in Europe.
• Sand Rock ShelterSand, Applecross · A rock overhang where early hunters feasted on shellfish.
• Star CarrNear Scarborough, North Yorkshire · Deer-skull headdresses and the oldest house in Britain.
• Swanscombe SkullSwanscombe, Kent · Three pieces of one woman's skull, found in a gravel pit over 20 years.
• The Beast of Brassknocker HillMonkton Combe, near Bath, Somerset · A mystery creature that stripped bark from the trees.
• The Big Grey ManBen Macdhui, Cairngorms · A famous climber flees in terror from footsteps in the mist.
• The Bolam Lake BeastBolam Lake, Northumberland · A huge hairy figure reported in the woods by a country park lake.
• The Bone Caves of InchnadamphCreag nan Uamh, Assynt · Caves full of the bones of bears, lynx and reindeer.
• The Boscombe BowmenBoscombe Down, Wiltshire · A family grave near Stonehenge, of people who travelled from far away.
• The Buggane of St Trinian'sSt Trinian's Church, near Crosby, Isle of Man · A hairy giant who kept tearing the roof off a church.
• The Clacton SpearClacton-on-Sea, Essex · The oldest wooden tool ever found in Britain.
• The Céide FieldsNear Ballycastle, County Mayo · Stone Age farms buried beneath a bog for 5,000 years.
• The Ebbsfleet ElephantEbbsfleet, Kent · A giant elephant butchered by early humans, found during railway building.
• The Ghillie DhuNear Gairloch, Wester Ross · A shy wild man of the birch woods, dressed in leaves and moss.
• The Gough's Cave Skull CupsCheddar Gorge, Somerset · Human skulls carefully made into drinking cups by Ice Age people.
• The Lydstep PigLydstep Haven, Pembrokeshire · A wild boar killed with flint arrows, found in a drowned forest.
• The Man-MonkeyShropshire Union Canal, Staffordshire · A black creature with huge white eyes leaps onto a carter's horse.
• The Red Lady of PavilandGower, Swansea · A skeleton stained red, first thought to be a Roman woman.
• The Shug MonkeyWest Wratting, Cambridgeshire · A shaggy creature, part dog and part monkey, on lonely country lanes.
• The Wild Man of OrfordOrford, Suffolk · Fishermen haul a hairy wild man out of the sea in their nets.
• Westbury CaveWestbury-sub-Mendip, Somerset · A Mendip quarry with signs of early humans 600,000 years ago.