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Ancient Britain with Ray Mears

Season 1 · 3 episodes · Jul 21, 2021

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    Episode 1

    Flint and Footprints

    Jul 21, 2021

    Ray speaks to Dr David Waterhouse about the discovery made at Happisburgh beach in Norfolk of footprints dating back 900,000 years, before demonstrating how our distant ancestors would have made and used flint tools for hunting and skinning game.

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    Episode 2

    Forest to Farms

    Aug 13, 2021

    Britain exits the Palaeolithic era and enters the Mesolithic and Neolithic era in Britain. On his journey, Ray will explore the evolution of hunting methods and equipment, and the eventual transformation of the hunter-gatherer culture and the adoption of agriculture and sedentary living.

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    Episode 3

    Forge to Fort

    Oct 8, 2021

    Ray Mears explores the relics of Iron Age Britain. On his journey, Ray visits the magnificent forts at Malvern Hills and a recreation of an Iron Age village at Butser Ancient Farm in Chalton.