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Cheddar Man, replica skeleton inside Gough's Cave, Cheddar, Somerset

Replica of a human skeleton found in Gough's Cave and dated to 7150 BC. The original is kept at the Natural History Museum in London. Mitochondrial DNA from the skeleton of Cheddar Man has been claimed to match that of Adrian Targett, a retired local schoolteacher, allegedly making him a distant relative of Cheddar Man.

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Uploaded on August 21, 2018
Taken on August 14, 2018