Series·2021·1 season

Ancient Britain with Ray Mears

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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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Flint and FootprintsE1 · 34 min

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.

Forest to FarmsE2 · 26 min

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.

Forge to FortE3 · 37 min

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.

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