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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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Episodes & Seasons

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Season 1

3 Episodes

EP 01

01.Flint and Footprints

34m

2021-07-21

01.Flint and Footprints

34m

Aired 2021-07-21

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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EP 02

02.Forest to Farms

26m

2021-08-13

02.Forest to Farms

26m

Aired 2021-08-13

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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EP 03

03.Forge to Fort

37m

2021-10-08

03.Forge to Fort

37m

Aired 2021-10-08

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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