Mysteries of the Stone Age: Cumbrias Prehistoric Monuments I SHORT DOCUMENTARY I Stone Circles 4 K

Buy my new book: A big thank you to Elsa Price and Marnie Calvert for their contribution to this video Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery: A short documentary, created alongside a new book titled Cumbria s Prehistoric Monuments. Adam Ibbotson invites you to explore a world sculpted by ancient hands. Britains megalithic monuments offer a unique glimpse into the lives and religious customs of Europes earliest settled communities. They are the remnants of the cultures that inhabited the British Isles during two distinct periods: the Neolithic, and the Bronze Age. Times of rapid innovation, these eras, spanning between 4000 BC and 700 BC, could be considered a prehistoric golden age of sorts. It was during this golden age, thousands of years before Roman sandals touched British shores, that some of Europes most