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Star Carr

Near Scarborough, North Yorkshire

Deer-skull headdresses and the oldest house in Britain.

Star Carr was a lakeside camp used by hunters about 11,000 years ago. Archaeologists found over 20 red deer skulls, carved and with holes cut in them so they could be worn as masks or headdresses.

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When
c. 11,000 years ago
Where
54.2100, -0.4300
Group
Bigfoot & Hominids

Visiting

Farmland today; finds are at the Yorkshire Museum.

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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