This Statue Fell Out of a Cliff and NOBODY Can Explain It

A bizarre sandstone statue known as the "Huntcliff Figure" was accidentally discovered in 1886 beneath Hunt Cliff near Saltburn-by-the-Sea... and ever since, archaeologists have argued about what it actually is. Is this squat, bald carving really a 4,000-year-old prehistoric statue? Possibly dating to the Bronze Age and contemporary with monuments like Stonehenge? Or could it belong to the Iron Age, resembling mysterious “Celtic” stone heads found across Britain and Europe? The figure later spent decades outside a smuggler-linked seaside pub before finally ending up in a local museum.

In this video we explore the strange history, disputed dating, and wild theories surrounding one of Britain’s most overlooked archaeological mysteries - a coastal statue that may represent one of the earliest human sculptures ever discovered in Northern Europe...
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