Britain BC - Francis Pryor's Top Rated Bronze Age sites in the UK
Submitted by Andy_B on Thursday, 27 February 2003 Page Views: 2681
Neolithic and Bronze Age
* Skara Brae
* Maes Howe
* The Stones of Stenness
* Great Orme Mines
* Maiden Castle
* Flag Fen
* Avebury Stone Circle
* Stonehenge
* Woodhenge
* Seahenge
* West Kennet Long Barrow
* The Dover Boat
"As far as I'm concerned the Romans arrived when the story was two-thirds told," says Dr. Pryor. "People have always concentrated on these later arrivals because they are recorded in literature, but we're only just beginning to look at the effect these invasions had on British culture."
With the screening of the Channel 4 two-parter, Dr. Pryor hopes our appetite for British pre-history will be both rekindled and redressed.
"It's very much easier and sexier to show film of the Bayeux Tapestry and people having their legs and arms chopped off," he says of recent British history documentaries, "whereas prehistory tends to be approached by the way of physical remains in the ground."
And therein lies the problem. Britain boasts a vast range of important megalithic and prehistoric sites, but many are inaccessible to the public and difficult to understand, as Dr. Pryor readily concedes. "They are just piles of soil, they are barrows, you've seen one you've seen them all. They only become important when you discover what they stood for and how and why they were placed in the landscape and how they have changed through time."
But with recent developments in the techniques of excavation, archaeologists have begun to correct this imbalance, enabling people like Dr. Pryor to paint more vivid pictures and bring the past alive.
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