Britain's Ancient Tracks with Tony Robinson

Grime’s Graves 4

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tjj Oct 15, 2016 22:56:11

Still recovering from broken right arm so not getting around as much as I'd like. This was a real pick-me-up earlier this evening - Britain's Ancient Trackways with Tony Robinson on Channel 4 at 8.00pm. First episode the Icknield Way starting from the Norfolk Coast and stopping off at Grime's Graves - the most enigmatic of ancient sites.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/britains-ancient-tracks-with-tony-robinson/on-demand/64588-001

Next week - the Ridgeway.

PS: This evening's episode comes with a dowsing warning - only a few minutes though.

Rhiannon Oct 16, 2016 09:24:02

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Broken arm?! Poor you. That's no good at all. I hope it heals up nice and easily.
I'll give the programme a go now you've recommended it. I saw the words 'ley lines' in the summary on our tv, so appreciate your 'dowsing warning' :)

While you're recuperating, you might like Alice Roberts' thing about the recent discoveries about the various types of humans that were living on the planet in recent times - driven by people working on genetics. I thought it was very interesting. It's called something about 'lost tribes', it's on the iplayer.

drewbhoy Oct 18, 2016 18:38:32

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tjj wrote:

Next week - the Ridgeway.

PS: This evening's episode comes with a dowsing warning - only a few minutes though.

Cheers Tjj, will watch that with interest. Hopefully there will be something about ancient tracks/Bowmans Roads up here as well.

Get well soon and hope you are on your feet and using your arm soon :-)

tjj Oct 23, 2016 00:27:59

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My home ground this evening - Tony Robinson starts at Avebury - making reference to the other T Robinson who was responsible for smashing many of the stones - as well as Stukeley and Keiller. He takes his life in his hands to cross a dual carriageway on the edge of Swindon to visit Richard Jefferies's home at Coate (now a museum) - then onwards. Stopping at Barbury Castle, Wayland's Smithy, Uffington White Horse ending in a pill box at Goring. Nothing we don't already know but a gentle hour's viewing. Tony Robinson addressing the lay person rather than archaeology enthusiast in an almost disingenuous manner.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/britains-ancient-tracks-with-tony-robinson

tjj Nov 5, 2016 22:19:32

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Firstly, apologies for a typo in my original post - should have read 'Ancient Tracks' not 'Ancient Trackways' - have done a little edit (must have been slightly out-of-it on paracetamol).

Third and final episode about the North Downs Way, a well trodden part of the country but somewhere I have never walked. Interesting mix of prehistory at the start of the walk - a 3,000 year old production site of IA quern stones through more recent history, finishing at Down House home of Charles Darwin. Stopping off at the Medway Megaliths, the Whitehorse Stone and Kit's Coty on the way - not forgetting a visit to one of the oldest unpollarded oaks in the country. And more.
Loved it.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/britains-ancient-tracks-with-tony-robinson