A long time ago Ferriby was a very different place. Long before the Romans (left 440 AD) or Vikings (c. 8-900 AD) came to Britain people lived here. At first the people travelled around in family groups hunting animals and gathering wild plants to eat. Eventually people began to farm the land, planting seeds to grow crops and keeping animals for milk, wool and meat. At this time they began to live in small villages. The houses in these early villages where made from inter-laced stakes