For Those Interested in Archaeology

Programme on BBC4 a while back covered the whole geological history of the Earth. Done by a Scottish guy, absolutely superb.

Anyway, on a different note. The feckin' savages should get hung for this.
"Fury has erupted in France after dozens of seven-thousand-year-old standing stones erected by prehistoric humans were destroyed to make way for a DIY store.
Some 37 stones standing between half-a-metre and a metre were each destroyed by the development of the large construction for a Mr. Bricolage outlet in Carnac, in Brittany, northwest France.
According to local amateur archaeologist Christian Obeltz, the site had been on France's National Archeological map since 2015, as well as being on the town's official list of local megaliths.
They say the site was also going to be submitted to France's Ministry of Culture with a view to listing it as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Carnac is famous for its ancient menhir - heavy raised standing stones - which spread across three alignments: Ménec, Kermario and Kerlescan."
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12173517/Fury-France-40-ancient-standing-stones-destroyed-make-way-DIY-store.html

 

This is the series. Probably still get it on BBCi-player-
Rise of the Continents - Wikipedia

 

PBS America (over here at least) is full of older British programmes. Not just BBC ones.

 

You need to watch this STV show if you can get it over there. Set in Fife, shot on location all over Scotland (the "Police HQ" is actually the old municipal buildings here in Stirling). Stars Lauren Lyle, who played Marsalie Fraser in Outlander, based on the Karen Pirie books by Val McDermid.
Read the original, and although bloody good the tv show is even better. Just about to start the second one, which the next series is going to be based on.
Karen Pirie (TV Series 2022– ) - IMDb

 

Which one?

 

Be nice if she was right.
"The same woman who discovered King Richard III's grave appears to have located another, saying she can feel it "in her bones" when she steps on a burial site.
Philippa Langley, 60, is an author and historian with an unusual gift: she has a sixth sense for royal burial sites.
Through a combination of painstaking research and what she calls a “strange sensation”, Ms Langley believes she may now have discovered her second burial site under a car park.
The first came in 2012, when she famously identified the exact location in a Leicester car park (painted with an ‘R’ for reserved) which, when excavated, proved to hold the bones of the 15th-century king, Richard III.
The discovery earned her international recognition, an MBE and portrayal in a 2022 feature film, The Lost King.
And now, Ms Langley believes she might know where to dig for King Henry I, Richard III’s predecessor by some 400 years, who ruled England from 1100 to his death in 1135."
www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1780274/henry-i-burial-site-philippa-langley-richard-iii-skeleton-spt

 

I vaguely remember this one. Seems they found something akin to a Roman bath (p24, 5.3.2 onwards)
www.wessexarch.co.uk/our-work/whitestaunton-manor