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Hengistbury Head

Bournemouth, Dorset

A headland used by Ice Age hunters and Iron Age traders.

About 14,100 years ago, hunters camped on Hengistbury Head and left more than 13,000 worked flints. Later came Bronze Age barrows, and in the Iron Age it became a busy port trading with France.

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When
From c. 14,000 years ago
Where
50.7150, -1.7500
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

Free, with a visitor centre and land train.

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.

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