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The oldest human footprints outside Africa are on a beach in Norfolk. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 In May 2013, a rough tide stripped the sand off a slab of ancient estuary mud at Happisburgh, and uncovered footprints. Human ones. Pressed there between 850,000 and 950,000 years ago. About 5 people, adults and children, walking south beside an ancient river, back when a fertile plain still joined Britain to the continent. No bones were found, only the trace they left in the mud, so nobody can say who they were. Only that they were here, nearly a million years before the Romans. The same sea that revealed the prints was already destroying them. The team had a fortnight. They recorded every print between the tides, then the sea took the page back. The prints are gone. The record survives. History like this is washing off our shores faster than we can save it. We read these pages before the tide does, and give them back, free, to everyone. Want to learn more? proudofus.co.uk/teach If you can afford to, help us save the next one: proudofus.co.uk/support Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧