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The Best Attractions In St. Brelade

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La Cotte de St Brelade is a Paleolithic site of early habitation in Saint Brélade, Jersey. Cotte means cave in Jèrriais. The cave is also known as Lé Creux ès Fées .Neanderthals lived there at various times between around 250,000 years ago and after 48,000 years ago—making it the earliest known occupation of the Channel Islands by a hominin species, and also possibly one of the last Neanderthal sites in northwestern Europe. It is the only site in the British Isles to have produced late Neanderthal fossils.At that time, with sea levels slightly below those at present, Jersey was part of Normandy, a peninsula jutting out from the coast, and La Cot...
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