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Neil Oliver wields a Bronze sword
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Public Places to Visit
GRIME'S GRAVES - PREHISTORIC FLINT MINE
Lynford, Thetford, Norfolk
ROSS ISLAND COPPER MINE
Killarney National Park
County Kerry, Ireland
AMESBURY ARCHER
Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum
Salisbury
BRONZE SWORDS AND AXES
National Museum of Scotland
Chambers Street, Edinburgh
KILMARTIN HOUSE MUSEUM
Kilmartin, Argyll
BRONZE AGE BOAT - DOVER MUSEUM
Dover, Kent
BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENT
Flag Fen Archaeology Park
Northey Road, Peterborough
BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENT
Dartmoor National Park
Devon -
List of References
Francis Pryor - Britain BC
Francis Pryor - The Making of the British Landscape
Michael Parker Pearson - Bronze Age Britain
Andrew Flemming - The Dartmoor Reaves -
VISIT ANCIENT BRITAIN WITH HANDS ON HISTORY
Create a stone circle, make a cave painting or use our guide to evoke the sights and sounds of ancient Britain.
Try out our activities with your family -
HANDS ON HISTORY DAYS OUT
Visit the BBC Things to Do site to find history activities around Britain and Northern Ireland.
Find days out near you -
HANDS ON HISTORY ANIMATIONS
What would life have been like in prehistoric times? Watch our animation.
A Day in the Life...Of A 10-Year-Old in Ancient Britain -
BBC TV BLOG
Presenter Neil Oliver on what A History Of Ancient Britain meant to him personally: "To come so close to the way some individual, man or woman, was thinking all those millennia ago, while the Ice Age waxed and waned, was very moving for me."
Read Neil's post at the BBC TV blog -
ANCIENT BRITISH HISTORY IN DEPTH
Before the arrival of the Romans, Britain was home to a wide array of sophisticated and thriving cultures. Find out more about them now.
Visit the British Prehistory page on BBC History
Credits
- Series Producer
- Cameron Balbirnie
- Presenter
- Neil Oliver
- Executive Producer
- Eamon Hardy
