"Landscape Mysteries" DVD Pack includes the 8 full programmes from the series. They include, In Search of Irish Gold, Figures in the Chalk, Britain before the Ice, Secrets of the Flood, The Tower People of Shetland, The Abandoned Marsh, The Riddle of the Yorkshire Tracks and The Terraces of Avalon. In this eight part series, discover how clues are hidden in the landscape.
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.
Professor Aubrey Manning 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.
Programme four of the series sees Aubrey in the Solent, off the south coast of England. It’s known that people once lived in a landscape that is now covered by the sea but how did this area become flooded? In SECRETS OF THE FLOOD Aubrey investigates a mystery that has puzzled experts for centuries.
Aubrey travels to the most northerly territory in the British Isles – to Shetland – in a search for clues to the identity of the ancient people who lived in the Broch Towers there.
A trip to the bleak Romney Marsh is next where, in THE ABANDONED MARSH, Aubrey searches for clues to a haunting and empty landscape that humans colonised then abandoned.
From there Aubrey ventures to an even more bleak and dangerous place – the North Yorkshire coastline where many a ship has been wrecked. But when the tide goes out, a different and mysterious landscape is revealed. Can Aubrey solve THE RIDDLE OF THE YORKSHIRE TRACKS?
For the last programme in this series Aubrey travels to Glastonbury to investigate the riddle of THE TERRACES OF AVALON. Along the steep sides of the Glastonbury Tor there’s a distinctive pattern of regular stepped terraces, but their origin is a mystery. Is there a connection with the myths and legends that permeate this intoxicating
