Fossil Hunting on the Deep History Coast

Fossil hunting along north Norfolk's Deep History Coast is an exciting activity as you may well find your own piece of history dating back millions of years! The stretch of coastline between Weybourne and Cart Gap is home to the earliest evidence of humans in Britain with footsteps left by the UK's first tourists nearly a million years ago, the UK’s biggest mammoth skeleton unearthed at West Runton and a 500,000 year old flint hand axe discovered in Happisburgh. There are many different types of fossils you can come across along north Norfolk's beaches, each telling a different story about the creatures that lived here.