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The finds are deposited in Norwich Castle Museum and the British Museum. [4] The hoard was ranked as number 4 in the list of British archaeological finds selected by experts at the British Museum for the 2003 BBC Television documentary , Our Top Ten Treasures , presented by Adam Hart-Davis .
The Happisburgh finds mark the first time evidence of early humans from 1,000,000 years ago has been found so far north. Palaeontologists had believed that hominins of the period required a much warmer climate, but the inhabitants of prehistoric Happisburgh had adapted to the cold, suggesting that they had developed advanced methods of hunting ...
A large number of hoards associated with the British Bronze Age, approximately 2700 BC to 8th century BC, have been found in Great Britain.Most of these hoards comprise bronze tools and weapons such as axeheads, chisels, spearheads and knives, and in many cases may be founder's hoards buried with the intention of recovery at a later date for use in casting new bronze items.
Location map of important pre-historic finds in Norfolk The prehistory of the County of Norfolk , England is broken into specific time periods, these being Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic . Norfolk has a very rich prehistoric past, from the Palaeolithic era 950,000 years ago, to end of the Iron Age 2000 years ago.
The Thetford Hoard (also known as the Thetford Treasure) is a hoard of Romano-British metalwork found by Arthur and Greta Brooks at Gallows Hill, near Thetford in Norfolk, England, in November 1979, and now in the British Museum.
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Lower Paleolithic (2,500,000 to 300,000 BC) In 2005 it was discovered that Norfolk contained one of the earliest finds of European man. [2] The find revealed flint tools, similar to those found on the Suffolk coast at Pakefield which were dated at around 668,000 BC [2] and a find at Happisburgh in the "Cromer Forest Bed" has been dated as being approximately 900,000 years old and has given us ...