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Earliest art in the British Isles discovered on Jersey – Yahoo News Australia
Fragments of stone engraved with abstract designs are the earliest art in the British Isles.
Fragments of stone engraved with abstract designs found on Jersey are the earliest known art in the British Isles, researchers say.
They were made by hunter-gatherers who lived between 23,000 and 14,000 years ago.
The designs were scratched into small ornamental tablets known as plaquettes; similar examples have been found in France, Spain and Portugal.
The 10 plaquettes were unearthed at Les Varines, Jersey, between 2014 and 2018.
Since the discoveries in the south-west of the island, scien…
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