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Happisburgh Footprints

Happisburgh, Norfolk

The oldest human footprints outside Africa, seen for just two weeks.

In May 2013, a rough sea washed sand off the beach at Happisburgh and exposed a hard layer of ancient mud. Pressed into it were around 50 footprints made by a small group of early humans, adults and children, perhaps 850,000 years ago.

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When
c. 850,000 years ago
Where
52.8250, 1.5330
Group
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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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