Ancient Britain with Ray Mears

2021

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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Production

History Hit

Language

Status

Ended

First Aired

July 21, 2021

Last Aired

October 8, 2021

Created By

Ray Mears

Where to Watch

Region US · Lang EN

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Seasons & Episodes

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Season

Flint and Footprints

Air date: 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.

Forest to Farms

Air date: 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.

Forge to Fort

Air date: 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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