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AngieLake
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|  Posted 05-02-2011 at 00:58
Just a reminder that the new series starts this coming week, with:
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" 'Age of Ice': 1 of 4.
Series in which Neil Oliver explores the origins of Britain and its people, beginning with an examination of the last ice age and what happened when the climate changed."
(We've had a lot of these [geology] progs lately, haven't we?)
Oh yes ... I bet Andy's pleased that they dropped 'Stonehenge Britain' from the previously-mooted title?!!
Maybe someone at the BBC reads Meg P..? 
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Andy B
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| Posted 05-02-2011 at 16:42
Thanks Angie, sense prevails (unusually):
A History Of Ancient Britain – Age Of Ice Ep 1/4
New series High Definition programme
Wednesday 9 February
9.00-10.00pm BBC TWO and BBC HD
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history
Neil Oliver embarks on a journey to discover A History Of Ancient Britain
Neil Oliver embarks on the story of how today's Britain and its people came to be, forged over thousands of years of ancient history. The opening episode in this landmark series focuses on the very first people to occupy Britain and their battle for survival in a hostile and icy world that was being shaped by nature's most powerful forces into the land we know today.
Beneath tidal mud banks in South Wales, Neil works with archaeologists to reveal the footprints of people who walked here 8,000 years ago. He abseils into a cave in West Wales to see where the remains of the first modern British human were found. At first it was thought to be a Roman prostitute – the so-called Red Lady of Paviland – but now carbon dating has revealed the bones to be those of an Ice Age mammoth hunter from 33,000 years ago who roamed the land when Britain was not an island, but a peninsula of Europe descending into a savage period of the last Ice Age.
When the Ice Age finally lifted around 11,000 years ago, a new and warmer age dawned. But as ice began to melt far to the north, sea levels rose and began to turn Britain into an island. Geological research has revealed that Britain's fate was finally sealed with a cataclysm – around 6100BC one of the greatest tsunamis ever recorded on Earth struck the north-east of Britain, devastating the fragile population of hunters and flooding the low-lying plains of what is now the North Sea.
The people who walked 8,000 years ago on the mud banks in South Wales would never have seen the great wave – they were the survivors, and some of the earliest people ever to know Britain as an island.
BBC Learning's Hands On History campaign takes families back in time to Ancient Britain, offering activities to try at home, as well as directing viewers to great ancient days out. By getting hands on with ancient history, the audience will better understand Britain as it was and how it compares to today. Hands On History also provides innovative workshop materials for libraries, museums and historical sites. Visit bbc.co.uk/history for more details.
A History Of Ancient Britain is simulcast on the award-winning BBC HD channel – the BBC's High Definition channel available through Freesat channel 109, Freeview channel 54, Sky channel 169 and Virgin Media channel 187.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xchyf
also linked is
Download Hands on History Activity Packs including
Build a Stone Circle
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/handsonhistory/download_ancients.shtml
and
A Day in the Life... Of A 10-Year-Old in Ancient Britain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/handsonhistory/day-in-the-life_ancient_britain.shtml
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| Posted 09-02-2011 at 12:59
Looking forward to this series, BBC Cornwall's offering to coincide with the BBC Two series here, (includes radio interviews with Katherine Sawyer at the Isles of Scilly Museum on St Mary's and Tony Blackman from the Cornwall Heritage Trust at Castle an Dinas hillfort)
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| Posted 09-02-2011 at 13:47
This looks like a really good series. Can't wait for 9pm
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|  Posted 09-02-2011 at 22:30
Without saying anything to spoil it for anyone who is waiting to watch a recording, it was much better than I was expecting, and I was expecting it to be pretty good.
Rune
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|  Posted 10-02-2011 at 00:25
I agree with Rune! Roll on next Wednesday.
Madagascar was good, too.
Pity I couldn't have rounded off the evening with a Lotto win though!
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| Posted 10-02-2011 at 11:49
Thoroughly enjoyed that. Will be keenly watching the next 3 episodes. I now want to get close to the Red 'Lady'. It made him shake. Superb. I get the same reaction with some of my stone axes . . .
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| Posted 10-02-2011 at 16:34
I especially liked the Paviland "laddie" quote.
Pity they didn't include anything on the Mesolithic stuff from Foxhole cave a few hundred yards away though. There again, this is easily accessable to the public and seems to be the subject of on-going digs.
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| Posted 11-02-2011 at 21:05
Aaah, problem solved!
In the section on the Paviland Laddie, our intrepid archaeologist visited him in (I think it was) the Ashmolean Museum. However he was moved to Cardiff Museum a couple of years ago and the Foxhole digs began in 2008.
Dates ain't precise, but it solves my dilemma and leaves me wondering how up to date the info us non-pros can obtain.
Looking forward to the next episode though.
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| Posted 15-02-2011 at 18:59
Neil Olivers style irritates me so I watched a few minutes and turned over and watched a Time Team repeat I hadn't seen before.
That's just me though. 
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| Posted 16-02-2011 at 15:47
I was unable to watch it without going off to try and locate the sites he was talking about but that's an obsession of mine as you'll know! I got the wrong South Wales footprints initially but fortunately Sem put me right. The other site is here, it has been properly investigated since I last looked at it.
There is masses of research on the Gwent levels site, I've tried to highlight the most useful.
Here's my list for Programme One,
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/visits.php?name=Andy%20B&op=visitlike
(A proper trip system is in the pipeline to present these properly as lists of sites)
I'll try and update tonight's one 'live' as he's sure to be visiting some of our favourite sites.
Finally, I e-mailed the BBC last week and we have a link from their support site - hooray!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/handsonhistory/
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Andy B
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| Posted 16-02-2011 at 21:18
Am I right that the tomb where Serge Cassen was interviewed 21 minutes in is Gavrinis?
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=9254
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| Posted 16-02-2011 at 22:41
I think it was here Andy, they referred to the carvings as some sort of boomerang to kill birds.
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=66184
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Andy B
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| Posted 16-02-2011 at 23:05
Yes it was, that's that very characteristic stone, thanks.
Visit log for Episode 2 now ready here
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| Posted 16-02-2011 at 23:15
It was from Table des Marchands at Locmariaquer .
ooops obviously didn't read all the posts . .
George
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MikeAitch
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| Posted 17-02-2011 at 22:11
The experimental archaeologist and author Jacqui Wood who was preparing the neolithic food and using the grinding stone has a website here. Some photos of more food and a roundhouse she and helpers are building in Cornwall on BBC website here.
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Andy B
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| Posted 17-02-2011 at 23:04
I knew about Saveock Water Archaeology but there isn't a prehistoric site there as such so I hadn't listed it. I didn't know about the roundhouse project however, that gets it a listing as a 'modern site'. I would list it as a museum but I can't find details of its opening times (or if it is indeed regularly open to the public).
Now added, thanks
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=28591
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Andy B
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| Posted 17-02-2011 at 23:12
Certainly not a full time museum with an entrance like this:
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MikeAitch
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| Posted 18-02-2011 at 19:33
Thanks for adding Andy, will see if I can gain access when the weathers warmer to take some photos.
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| Posted 23-02-2011 at 23:45
In today's episode, our intrepid archaeo didn't visit the Carn Menyn quarry as listed on Coflein.
Their Grid Ref is SN 14414 32482.
It's only about 10yds away from where he was pictured, but is bloody difficult to get to.
PID:67787
Sorry picture mods but not sure how to get this to work
It's to the right of the pic, round a boulder face and up a few metres. Edit as you see fit.
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