Huge 166,000,000-year-old dinosaur footprints discovered in Oxfordshire

One of the five trackways discovered was 150 metres long (Picture: University of Birmingham)

The green meadows and medieval towns of the Home Counties are probably the last place you’d think gigantic monsters moseyed.

But around 200 dinosaur footprints have been found stamped into the limestone of an Oxfordshire quarry.

Said to be the biggest site of its kind in the UK, this ‘dinosaur highway’ was made some 166 million years ago when the county was a muddy lagoon.

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