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Beeches Pit

Site near West Stow, Suffolk, with Acheulean handaxes and sustained fires interpreted as hearths, the earliest secure evidence of fire in Britain.

Dated events and their evidence

• about 398,000 years ago mainstream
  Heated flints and sediments interpreted as hearths, MIS 11; earliest secure fire evidence in Britain source

Where

52.3055° N, 0.6673° E

Sources

• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3069174/

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