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La Cotte

A natural arch in the granite cliff that has been used as a shelter since Palaeolithic times when St Brelade’s Bay was a lowland plain. Excavation of the deposits in the shelter shown it to have been used between 250,000 and 33,000 years ago. The bones of mammoth and rhinoceros were discovered as well as lower and middle Palaeolithic flints.

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