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A History of Ancient BritainEpisodes

    Orkney's Stone Age Temple

    Neil Oliver explores a recently-discovered, 5,000-year-old temple in Orkney.

    Age of RomansSeries 2

    4/4Neil Oliver completes his epic journey with the modern marvels of Rome.

    Age of InvasionSeries 2

    3/4Neil Oliver reaches the moment when Celtic Britain was ripped apart by the Roman army.

    Age of WarriorsSeries 2

    2/4Neil examines a warrior from 300 BC, owner of the finest Iron Age sword ever discovered.

    Age of IronSeries 2

    1/4Neil Oliver discovers how the golden age of bronze was replaced by a new era of iron.

    Age of BronzeSeries 1

    4/4Neil Oliver looks at the arrival of metals and the seismic social changes they triggered.

    Age of CosmologySeries 1

    3/4Looking at the birth of cosmology, Stone Age monuments and the very idea of Heaven itself.

    Age of AncestorsSeries 1

    2/4Looking at the change from hunting and gathering to farming.

    Age of IceSeries 1

    1/4Life in Britain in the brutal world of the last ice age.