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There are many prehistoric sites and structures of interest remaining from prehistoric Britain, spanning the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. Among the most important are the Wiltshire sites around Stonehenge and Avebury, which are designated as a World Heritage Site. [1]
Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) Britain is the period of the earliest known occupation of Britain by humans. This huge period saw many changes in the environment, encompassing several glacial and interglacial episodes greatly affecting human settlement in the region.
Magic Map The Boxgrove Palaeolithic site is an internationally important archaeological site north-east of Boxgrove in West Sussex with findings that date to the Lower Palaeolithic . The oldest human remains in Britain have been discovered on the site, fossils of Homo heidelbergensis dating to 500,000 years ago. [ 2 ]
July – Julius Caesar invades Britain and defeats the Catuvellauni under Cassivellaunus. [19] September – Tribute fixed, and peace agreed between the Catevellauni and the Trinovantes, allied with Rome. Romans return to Gaul. [19] 50 BC Fleeing to Britain after a failed revolt in Gaul, Commius becomes chieftain of the Atrebates. [19] 34 BC
A map showing the hypothetical extent of Doggerland from now back to the Weichselian glaciation. Until the middle Pleistocene, Great Britain was a peninsula of Europe, connected by the massive chalk Weald–Artois Anticline across the Strait of Dover.
Prehistoric settlement of the British Isles refers to the earliest establishment and expansion of human settlements in locations in the British Isles. These include: Neolithic British Isles; Prehistoric Britain. Bronze Age Britain; British Iron Age; Prehistoric Ireland; Prehistoric Scotland. Prehistoric Orkney; Prehistoric Wales
Prehistoric sites in the United Kingdom (7 C) Prehistoric Wales (2 C, 12 P) S. Stone Age Britain (4 C, 30 P) Pages in category "Prehistoric Britain"
British wildwood, or simply the wildwood, is the natural forested landscape that developed across much of Prehistoric Britain after the last ice age.It existed for several millennia as the main climax vegetation in Britain given the relatively warm and moist post-glacial climate and had not yet been destroyed or modified by human intervention.