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  2. History of the horse in Britain - Wikipedia

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    The earliest horse remains found in the area now covered by Britain and Ireland date to the Middle Pleistocene.Two species of horses have been identified from remains at Pakefield, East Anglia, dating back to 700,000 BC. [1]

  3. List of horse breeds of the British Isles - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of some of the breeds of horse originating in the British Isles. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Twelve of the native breeds are considered rare and are marked with a "†" symbol. [ 4 ] [ 3 ]

  4. More than 70 horses were found to be buried here, the researchers said, and the site was dated to between 1425 and 1517, the late medieval and early Tudor period.

  5. List of extinct animals of the British Isles - Wikipedia

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    Species is effectively extirpated, with no maternity sites found in the UK. Wild horse: Equus ferus ferus: Perissodactyla: c. 10,000 BP [33] Re-established proxy in the form of free-roaming domestic horses [34] Gray whale: Eschrichtius robustus: Artiodactyla: c. 598 BC: Moose/elk: Alces alces: Artiodactyla: c. 5600 BP [35] *Siberian roe deer ...

  6. Robin Hood Cave Horse - Wikipedia

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    The Robin Hood Cave Horse (previously known as the Ochre Horse) is a fragment of a rib engraved with a horse's head, discovered in 1876, in the Robin Hood Cave in Creswell Crags, Derbyshire. It is the only piece of Upper Paleolithic portable art showing an animal to have been found in Britain.

  7. Archaeologists Found 28 Horse Skeletons in Grave Pits—and ...

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    In all, the nine graves on the 3.2-acre site show the skeletons of 28 horses, all buried roughly 2,000 years ago. Located in Villedieu-sur-Indre in central France, that first pit offered up the ...

  8. Category:Horses in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Blackie (army horse) Breed of Horses Act 1535 & Horses Act 1540; British Carriagedriving; British Equestrian Trade Association; British Horse Industry Confederation; British Horse Society; Byways and Bridleways Trust

  9. Exmoor pony - Wikipedia

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    Wild horses have lived in Britain for hundreds of thousands of years. Some remains found date as early as 700,000 BC, [20] while others are as recent as 3,500 BC. [21] No genetic studies to date have correlated these prehistoric remains to any modern breed. What has been studied are Y-chromosomes (Y-DNA) and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA).