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Heritage! The Battle For Britain's Past - BBC 4


Interesting 3 part series on Bbc4 started last night.

Features the move to protect prehistoric sites by Lubbock and Pitt-Rivers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscreen/tv/episode/p014fycm/

Secrets Of The Stonehenge Skeletons 8pm Sunday 10th March


New 90 minute documentary on channel 4 next Sunday night.

Stonehenge is Britain's greatest prehistoric monument and, for many centuries, has also provided perhaps our greatest prehistoric mystery.

One man believes he has found the vital clues to solve this puzzle, and this programme follows him through a series of discoveries that rewrite the story of Stonehenge.

Buried beneath the stones are ancient bodies, and a research team led by world-renowned archaeologist Professor Mike Parker Pearson has been granted special permission to analyse them for the first time.

The results of that investigation overturn the accepted view on when Stonehenge was built and what it was built for, providing compelling evidence that it once united the people of Britain.

The programme proves that the monument we know today was not the original Stonehenge and answers the mystery of its sudden decline.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/secrets-of-the-stonehenge-skeletons

Stonehenge and its Environs

Time Team Special - The Secrets Of Stonehenge Monday 1st June at 9pm


Most people will probably have seen the advert but I thought I'd post this as I'd be gutted if I hadn't heard and missed it.

It's on this Monday night on channel 4 and incorporates all the findings and new theories from the last 6 years of digs by the Stonehenge Riverside Project run by Mike Parker Pearson, Julian Thomas and Colin Richards.

http://www.timeteam.k1z.com/
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