Stonehenge
Archaeologist Ben Robinson flies over Wiltshire to uncover new discoveries in the Stone Age landscape. Sites found from the air have led to exciting new evidence about Stonehenge. The discoveries help to explain why the monument is where it is, and reveal how long ago it was occupied by people.
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Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of hunter gatherer activity 8,000 years ago.
Recent excavations shows Stonehenge was a settlement 3,000 years before it was built.
Clips
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The Flying Archaeologist - Stonehenge - The Missing Link
Duration: 02:28
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Ancient yew tree
Duration: 01:03
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Jadeite hand axe
Duration: 01:51
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Discovery of a sarsen stone
Duration: 01:28
Music Played
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Peter Gabriel
The Nest That Sailed the Sky
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Magnetic Man
Flying into Tokyo
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David Arcadia, Dr Azimuth
Wavelet
Stonehenge's hidden secrets
In many ways Stonehenge is the birthplace of aerial archaeology.
Aerial archaeologist Ben Robinson’s says that it was a thrill to view Stonehenge from the same perspective as 2nd Lt Sharpe, the man credited with taking the first purposeful aerial photographs of an archaeological site in Britain.
Navigating the same airspace that Sharpe and his fellow ‘balloonists’ occupied in 1906 is quite challenging these days but it enabled Ben and the TV team to find some fresh perspectives on the landscape below.
Stonehenge and its surrounding landscape are perhaps one of most archaeologically scrutinised places anywhere in the world.
You could be forgiven for thinking that there is little else to discover after more than 100 years of research but aerial surveys are still revealing new archaeological features and prompting exciting theories about the origins of the region.
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Executive Producer | Diana Hare |
Presenter | Ben Robinson |
Producer | Eddie Anderson |
Broadcasts
- Fri 19 Apr 2013 19:30´óÏó´«Ã½ One South, West & Oxfordshire only
- Mon 29 Apr 2013 20:30
- Tue 30 Apr 2013 02:00
- Thu 28 Nov 2013 20:30
- Fri 29 Nov 2013 01:00
- Mon 7 Jul 2014 19:30
- Tue 21 Apr 2015 19:30
- Mon 11 Apr 2016 19:30
- Sun 4 Dec 2016 19:00
- Tue 3 Oct 2017 19:30
- Wed 16 Jan 2019 19:00
- Sun 6 Sep 2020 21:30
- Mon 23 May 2022 19:30
- Tue 24 May 2022 01:00
- Mon 20 Mar 2023 19:30
- Tue 21 Mar 2023 01:25
- Mon 23 Sep 2024 19:30
- Tue 24 Sep 2024 01:30
Featured in...
The Secrets Below the Surface
Unearthing the worlds we left behind.
Presenter's blog post: "Our knowledge is being transformed by the aerial view"
Read Ben Robinson's post on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Love TV Blog.