Groundbreaking research reveals the first modern Brits had 'dark to black' skin and blue eyes

Full facial reconstruction model of a head based on the skull of Britain's oldest complete skeleton on display during a screening event of The First Brit: Secrets Of The 10,000 Year Old Man at The Natural History Museum, in London. Photo: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

Isabel Togoh

The first modern Briton, who lived around 300 generations ago, had "dark to black" skin, groundbreaking research has revealed.

Britain's oldest complete skeleton, known as Cheddar Man, was unearthed more than a century ago in Gough's Cave in Somerset.