thesweetcheat
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Secret Britain
Aug 15, 2010, 20:23
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New series on BBC1 (4 parts). Just started in the SW and includes a few minutes on Dartmoor (about 15 mins in), particularly one of the last remaining pieces of woodland, which is representative of how Dartmoor was before the bronze age clearances. Also a lovely helicopter flyover of Down Tor row and cairn circle (yay!).
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tjj
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Edited Aug 15, 2010, 22:05
Re: Secret Britain
Aug 15, 2010, 20:57
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thesweetcheat wrote: New series on BBC1 (4 parts). Just started in the SW and includes a few minutes on Dartmoor (about 15 mins in), particularly one of the last remaining pieces of woodland, which is representative of how Dartmoor was before the bronze age clearances. Also a lovely helicopter flyover of Down Tor row and cairn circle (yay!).
Just watching - a great sequence on the MOD land of Salibury Plain. Matt Baker picks up a large shard of early Iron Age pottery - excavated by a badger.
Great little programme.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00thmm9/Secret_Britain_The_Crowded_South/
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Secret Britain
Aug 15, 2010, 21:09
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tjj wrote: thesweetcheat wrote: New series on BBC1 (4 parts). Just started in the SW and includes a few minutes on Dartmoor (about 15 mins in), particularly one of the last remaining pieces of woodland, which is representative of how Dartmoor was before the bronze age clearances. Also a lovely helicopter flyover of Down Tor row and cairn circle (yay!).
Just watching - a great sequence on the MOD land of Salibury Plain. Matt Baker picks up a large shard of early Iron Age pottery - excavated by a badger.
Great little programme.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00thmm9/Secret_Britain_The_Crowded_South/
Quite enjoyed that, all told. Still don't believe in the hedge-dating technique though (my Dad used to work from that basis, but it seems far too random to be accurate).
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goffik
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Edited Aug 15, 2010, 22:15
Re: Secret Britain
Aug 15, 2010, 21:10
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A man walks into a pub and says "Why does your face look like a horse?"
No, hang on... that's not right! ;)
Deja vu!!! :D
I've been watching that, too. Made me think I really ought to get on one o' them guided tours of Salisbury Plain one day... Also noticed a fleeting glance of a stone row with a circle at the end - where was that? Didn't look like Merrrivale to me but might have been.
Seems tonight has been a bit of a night for it!
Apparently "The World's Squarest Teenagers", or whatever it's called (about some Amish kids coming to England to sample how kids should really act, or summat) were taken to Boskawen-Un and (what I think was) Halligye Fogou (I didn't actually see it but might do to satisfy my curiosity!)
G x
[Edit: I ought to add that my "pretend" failed joke at the start of this is a play on 'Why the long face' rather than suggestive of anyone's equine appearance. ;) ]
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texlahoma
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Re: Secret Britain
Aug 15, 2010, 21:14
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goffik wrote: A man walks into a pub and says "Why does your face look like a horse?"
No, hang on... that's not right! ;)
Deja vu!!! :D
I've been watching that, too. Made me think I really ought to get on one o' them guided tours of Salisbury Plain one day... Also noticed a fleeting glance of a stone row with a circle at the end - where was that? Didn't look like Merrrivale to me but might have been.
Seems tonight has been a bit of a night for it!
Apparently "The World's Squarest Teenagers", or whatever it's called (about some Amish kids coming to England to sample how kids should really act, or summat) were taken to Boskawen-Un and (what I think was) Halligye Fogou (I didn't actually see it but might do to satisfy my curiosity!)
G x
A good first episode I though, easy going sunday night tv. I reckon there will be more treats in store before the finish.
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goffik
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Re: Secret Britain
Aug 15, 2010, 21:22
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Yep indeedy!
Sort of follows the Coast format of everything being all-too-brief, but at least you get to see more places, I guess, so you can investigate further for yourself.
G x
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Secret Britain
Aug 15, 2010, 21:48
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goffik wrote: Also noticed a fleeting glance of a stone row with a circle at the end - where was that? Didn't look like Merrrivale to me but might have been.
That was Down Tor (aka Hingston Down) cairn circle and row - honestly, didn't you read my post? ;-)
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Chance
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Re: Secret Britain
Aug 15, 2010, 22:00
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It was nice to see Ed and Will pop up
I posted news of their travels on this forum before and you can see more here
http://www.awalkaroundbritain.com/
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goffik
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Re: Secret Britain
Aug 15, 2010, 22:07
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Hahaha!
I had read your post, but bizarrely, I didn't put 2 and 2 together and thought you were referring to something I'd missed!
Nutter. I told you: spend too much time round the stones and you go a bit mental! ;)
G x
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Lubin
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Re: Secret Britain
Aug 15, 2010, 22:44
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The "Rocky Valley" near Tintagel looked interesting. Was that ancient rock art or something more modern?
Peace , Lubin
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