FARMERS IN PREHISTORIC BRITAIN

Francis Pryor - regular contributor on Channel 4's Time Team and the man behind the Britain BC and Britain AD television series - maintains that early farming in Britain has been largely misunderstood, due to a loss of contact with the countryside and failure to understand prehistoric farming methods. He shows how, in the millennium leading up to about 700 BC, certain areas of lowland England developed an intensive style of livestock rearing so prosperous that these prehistoric 'agri-businesses' were able to bequeath fabulously valuable objects of bronze, iron or even gold to the world of their ancestors.