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On this beautiful coastline walk we visit many fascinating sites. But by far the most historically significant is Paviland Cave. This was the place where back in 1912 the Rev Buckland found a skeleton whose bones had been died with red ochre. A discovery which became known as the Red Lady of Paviland as he thought she was a druidical high priestess. Later there was theory that it was a Roman centurion. Both these theories turned out to be wide of the mark, but the reality was even more spectacular. It transpired to be the body of a Paleolithic male dating to approximately 31,000 BCE. The oldest human remains ever discovered in Britain. We also take in the famous Culver Hole, an ancient dovecote built into the cliff face and two Iron Age Hill Forts. Plus the moving memorial to the lifeboat tragedy of 1916.