The end of the last major ice age which had seen Britain totally covered in ice as far south as Oxford. With so much water frozen as ice at the poles the sea was not so deep and people and animals could walk from Europe to Britain and across to Ireland. As the ice melted and the land got warmer trees grew and Britain was soon almost totally forest. Mammoths became extinct.

25,000 YEARS AGO

The beginning of the last major ice age. During this period very few humans would have lived in Britain. Only large animals would have remained like Mammoths and Sabre Toothed Tigers. Both these animals are of course now extinct.

35,000 YEARS AGO

The modern human arrives in Europe and reaches Britain where he meets another type of earlier human called Neanderthal man. We do not know why Neanderthal man died out.

200,000 YEARS AGO

The oldest fossil remains of “humans” in Britain