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This is a list of British palaeolithic sites.

Lower palaeolithic

The earliest lower palaeolithic sites in Britain date to about 700,000 BP.^[1]

Site	Location	Description	Dating
Waverley Wood Farm	Warwickshire
Happisburgh	Suffolk
High Lodge	Suffolk
East Farm, Barnham	Suffolk
Hoxne	Suffolk
Pakefield	Suffolk
Beeches Pit	Suffolk
Clacton	Essex
Purfleet	Essex
Swanscombe	Kent
Boxgrove	Sussex

Middle palaeolithic

The boundary between the lower and middle palaeolithic in Britain falls between about 245,000 BP and 180,000 BP.^[1]

Site	Location	Description
Kirkdale Cave	Yorkshire

Upper palaeolithic

The boundary between the middle and upper palaeolithic in Britain falls between about 50,000 BP and 25,000 BP.^[1] The mesolithic begins at about 11,600 BP.^[2]

Site	Location	Description
Creswell Crags	Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Alexander Lang and Paul Preston, "The Palaeolithic Period", in Adkins, Adkins, & Leach, Handbook, pp. 1–3.
^ Paul Preston, "The Mesolithic Period", in Adkins, Adkins, & Leach, Handbook, pp. 23–25.

[HOBA_1-3-1] Alexander Lang and Paul Preston, "The Palaeolithic Period", in Adkins, Adkins, & Leach, Handbook, pp. 1–3.

[HOBA_23-25-2] Paul Preston, "The Mesolithic Period", in Adkins, Adkins, & Leach, Handbook, pp. 23–25.

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