Key Research Age Marine Oxygen Isotope British Palaeo- Hominin Fossils Archaeological Key Archaeological and Questions (yr) Record Stages geography Industries Faunal Sites Cool Warm Island/Peninsula Recolonization after the 10,000 1 Flandrian Gough's Aveline's Hole c Late Glacial Maximum Late Glacial i Kent's Cavern, Gough's Cave, Robin Hood Cave Cave h 2 t i Human absence 20,000 L.Gl. Max l Clifford Hill o s e Middle-Early Upper 3 Devensian Eel Point Cave, . Beedings, Kent's Cavern, Uphill Quarry, Paviland, Whitemoor Haye l M Palaeolithic Transition Cold Stage a Lynford, Hyaena Den, Coygan, Pin Hole, Robin Hood Cave Paviland, Kent's Cavern P 50,000 r n 4 e a Banwell Bone Cave, Willment's Pit (Isleworth) p i r p e Cassington U t s 100,000 u Tornewton Cave, Bacon Hole Ipswichian o M Joint Mitnor Cave, Kirkdale Cave Human Absence 5e Interglacial s 6 i o l l Black Rock, Brighton cold stage a 150,000 n v a i e l L u e h Crayford c 200,000 7 A Creffield Road 'Aveley' Pontnewydd Pontnewydd Cave Interglacial ? Aveley Ebbsfleet Lower-Middle 250,000 8 Harnham Palaeolithic Transition n Baker's Hole (Northfleet), Lion Tramway Cutting a i n o Botany Pit, Purfleet t 300,000 c a l 9 'Purfleet' ? C Grays Thurrock, Great Yeldham Interglacial Globe Pit (Little Thurrock) 10 350,000 cold stage Barnham, Beeches Pit, Elveden, Foxhall Road Hoxnian Swanscombe Hoxnian Interglacial ? Hitchin, Hoxne, Marks Tey, Swanscombe, Westcliffe 400,000 11 Interglacial Clacton, Swanscombe, Southfleet Road 12 Anglian Boxgrove 450,000 Cold Stage 13 500,000 Boxgrove Boxgrove 14 Culford 550,000 ? * Happisburgh * Order of sites alphabetic Nature and Timing of 15 High Lodge (subject to further research) 'Cromerian Lakenheath the First Occupation Complex' of Britain 600,000 Warren Hill 16 Westbury ? 650,000 17 Pakefield Sites with evidence of butchery Norton Subcourse are shown in red.