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Low Hauxley Prehistoric Burial
Low Hauxley is located on the Northumberland coast. It is a landscape, which has changed dramatically over the last
8000 years. Once a tree-covered landscape barely touched by humans, it became the site of an ancient burial place
about 3500 years ago. Much of this sacred land has been lost to coastal erosion to the east and, more recently, to
opencast mining in the mid 20th century.
There have been archaeological excavations here in 1983, 1993 and 1994. We have used the information from the two
most recent pieces of work to make a model of how the area might have looked in the Bronze Age. Using the tabs above
you can move between reconstructions of the site as images and video clips. You can also watch a video of a
Mesolithic woman knapping flint and a video of sea level changes in north-western Europe.
The story of our changing landscape starts long before people first moved into the area to exploit its resources.
Learn how Britain became an island and how the site was discovered, or
explore the site archive. You can also watch a video clip of flint knapping and
a Bronze Age burial.
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