1. Story of England: Stone Age to Roman Days
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Neanderthals and the Anglian Glacier
There was a really big glaciation about 450,000 years ago. The ice sheet covered two-thirds of Britain then. It pushed its way down to just north of London and it actually pushed the river Thames close to its present course. So we think the Thames was flowing across Norfolk at the time of Haysborough. Those footprints were probably made by people walking along what was the river Thames when it was up in Norfolk. And then this huge ice sheet pushed itself and that's when we pick up the Swanscombe deposits made by the river Thames as it had been pushed closer to London.
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