Series
Ancient Britain with Ray Mears
Documentary
Britain is an island where history is well and truly part of the landscape and an island where human feet have walked for a million years.. Join bushcraft and survival expert Ray Mears explore Britain's distant past, from the earliest evidence of people in Britain, right up to the moment that everything would change.
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Seasons & episodes
1Flint and Footprints21 Jul 2021 · 34mRay 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.
2Forest to Farms13 Aug 2021 · 26mBritain 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.
3Forge to Fort8 Oct 2021 · 37mRay 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.
Details
- Created by
- Ray Mears
- First aired
- 21 Jul 2021
- Last aired
- 8 Oct 2021
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Episodes
- 3
