BBC Landscape Mysteries

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Landscape Mysteries

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.

“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.”

2. FIGURES IN THE CHALK

Next, in FIGURES IN THE CHALK Aubrey travels to the Chalk Hills of England to unravel the origins of the enigmatic chalk figures such as the Long Man of Wilmington and the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset. The age of these chalk figures has never been fully established and Aubrey, alongside a team of archaeologists from Reading University, come up with a remarkable new discovery.

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