Happisburgh
Happisburgh, pronounced "Hazeborough", is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is on the coast, to the east of a north-south road, the B1159. Its population is under 1,000.
This small place became a site of national archaeological importance in 2010. Flint tools over 800,000 years old were unearthed. This is the oldest evidence of human occupation anywhere in the UK.[1] In May 2013, a series of early human footprints were discovered on the beach at the site, providing direct evidence of early human activity at the site.[2] Rough seas had eroded the sandy beach. This uncovered some elongated hollows.
Happisburgh Media
- Washed Out Road in Happisburgh.jpg
A Happisburgh road partially washed away by coastal erosion.
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Photographs of Area A at Happisburgh, showing: (a) view of Happisburgh footprints surface looking north; and (b) view of footprint surface looking south, also showing underlying horizontally bedded laminated silts
- Saint Mary's Church (Happisburgh).jpg
Saint Mary's church, Happisburgh, Norfolk, England viewed from the air.
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The lighthouse at Happisburgh
- Happisburgh Lifeboat Station and RNLI Shop.jpg
Happisburgh's lifeboat station and Royal National Lifeboat Institution shop
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Happisburgh Manor (c.1992)
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The precarious position of houses due to the effects of coastal erosion
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Stone tools discovered at Happisburgh