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thesweetcheat wrote: Bit of a late post, but on now and no doubt on the iplayer later. Some nice objects, some of the content seems to reflect a rather earlier view of the Iron Age: "Hillforts where chiefs lived".
I've recorded it and have just watched the first 30 minutes (will watch the rest later). I found Neil Oliver's visit to the Hallstatt Salt Mines quite astonishing. The graves of 5,000 people dating back to 800BC were excavated back in the mid-19th Century. Most of the skeletons showed evidence of labouring in the underground labyrinth of salt-mines beneath the mountain where they were buried. Neil Oliver went down into the mines (not for the claustrophobic) and you can't help but share his delight in seeing salt preserved prehistoric human poo still to be found down there.
Edit: Watched the rest of programme this evening, enjoyed it very much. As always, Alice Roberts and Neil Oliver (though never appearing in shot together) are splendid presenters making everything they talk about accessible. Am always fascinated by the "Celtic language" as in Gaelic, Welsh and Cornish.
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