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Thor's Cave

Manifold Valley, Staffordshire

A huge cave mouth high on a limestone crag.

Thor's Cave has a great arched entrance about 10 metres high, set in a crag high above the Manifold valley. Stone Age tools and the bones of animals have been found inside.

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When
Stone Age
Where
53.0950, -1.8580
Group
Caves & grottoes

Visiting

A steep climb from the Manifold Way, near Wetton. Free.

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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