LANDSCAPE MYSTERIES

Documentary

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“The landscape around us is part of our life; it affects so much that we do and feel. Amazing forces have acted to shape our landscapes; they began millions of years back and continue to this day. Join me in a search for clues which reveal their influences on our past, present and future."

Professor Aubrey Manning embarks on a series of journeys in which he tries to solve mysteries hidden in the landscape of the British Isles. Unpicking clues in the geology, natural history, and archaeology, Aubrey reveals how the land has come to look the way it does.

In Search of Irish Gold
Spectacular hoards of gold objects, now in the Dublin Museum, show Bronze Age people in Ireland were able to find large amounts of the precious metal. But in the Irish landscape today there’s little sign of gold. So where did these prehistoric metalworkers find it? Aubrey Manning sets off across Ireland in search of a lost Irish Eldorado.

Figures in the Chalk
The enormous chalk figures which are scattered through much of the landscape of southern England represent a puzzle. While the origins of some are well known, others are shrouded in mystery. In an attempt to discover the truth about who cut them, and why, Aubrey sets out to explore the history of the chalk landscape through thousands of years of human settlement.

Britain Before the Ice
Aubrey attempts to journey back nearly 30,000 years, to a Britain before the last great ice sheets covered the country at the height of the ice age, and conjure up the landscape of this lost world.

Secrets of the Flood
Between the south coast of England and the Isle of Wight lies the Solent, and here at low tide, objects – even Saxon sheep pens - are coming to light which suggest communities once lived in a lost landscape that is now covered by the sea. Aubrey sets out to discover how this area became flooded.

The Tower People of Shetland
On the Shetland Isles, on the far edge of Europe, a series of monumental stone towers - known as Brochs - once dominated the landscape. Aubrey sets off to discover what sort of community built the Broch towers and for what purpose.

The Abandoned Marsh
On the Romney Marsh in Kent, there are ruined churches in the middle of fields and tales of towns lost at sea. The area once supported a much bigger population than it does now. Aubrey sets out to find out what happened to these lost communities and why the Marsh is now one of the most deserted areas in the country

The Riddle of the Yorkshire Tracks
Strange markings in the rocks on the North Yorkshire coast are the starting point for an investigation into a forgotten story from Britain’s industrial past. Aubrey discovers that at the beginning of the 17th century, long before the industrial revolution, the now deserted coastline south of Whitby was dominated by Britain’s first chemical industry.