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Britain Before the Ice

Episode 2 of 8

Britain's early history. Aubrey Manning finds out what Britain might have been like before the last ice age, looking to a 29,000-year-old skeleton for clues.

Series in which Professor Aubrey Manning seeks to solve some of the enduring mysteries of the British landscape through clues in geology, archaeology and natural history.

He travels to the Gower Peninsula in south Wales, where, in 1823, the skeleton of a young man who had died 29,000 years ago was found. Professor Manning tries to unravel the mystery of the lost world in which this man lived.

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