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Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

3. The Horse Head of Robin Hood’s Cave - Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire Border

Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

Fat Belly Films

News, Neil Oliver, History, Comment

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Neil’s journey across the British Isles, and through its history, continues as he takes us on a walk down one of the oldest streets on the planet.


In this episode Neil is confronted with some of the oldest art ever found in Britain. Around 16,000 years ago Creswell Crags, in the Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire borders got its latest tenants, a group of hunter gathers who made their homes home with beautiful decorations and mysterious painted symbols.


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0:00.0

The 15 million pound Lotto Super Saturday jackpot must be won this Saturday.

0:04.5

Or thousands of you will win a share of the prize.

0:06.7

But who will it be?

0:07.7

Maybe Raj, watching the racewalk and thinking I could do that.

0:10.6

Well speed walk down the shop and get yourself a ticket.

0:13.1

Lotto will you be next play in store or on app the national lottery account terms

0:17.6

rules and procedures apply players must be 18 or over. Our modern world to some extent it's a veneer it's great thin like butter over toast you know it covers the surface but it doesn't go

0:36.2

very deep and if you if you go that bit deeper then the distant past of our species is still here in these British Isles.

0:48.8

You can time travel not just in terms of centuries but in terms of millennia and be reminded that it was all very different once and after some centuries and some millennia it will all be very different again.

1:07.2

The next podcast in this series is a walk down one of the oldest streets on the planet. Ancient males eaten 40,000 years ago, the story of

1:18.8

weapons, survival and creation. A time of woolly rhinos, spotted hyenas, lions and hippopotamai.

1:28.0

Artworks of immense beauty.

1:32.0

Mysterious symbols carved into rock, artists leaving their

1:37.4

marks upon the face of time, with the oldest art ever discovered in the British Isles.

1:45.0

I'm stepping out across Britain to discover 100 remarkable places that have shaped you, me, and the whole world.

1:55.0

I'm Neil Oliver, and this is my love letter to the British Isles. In the last episode we were in Wales at the oldest ceremonial grave of a Homo sapien ever discovered in Britain and

2:15.1

northwest Europe. Where are we this week? The third place on my journey is

2:20.8

somewhere that whenever I visit well it touches my soul hidden away on the

2:27.4

Derbyshire Nottinghamshire border the astonishing Cresswell Craggs. You can stand in one of these caves in Creswell Craggs and you are

2:40.0

inhabiting the space and breathing air in a location that was known to our

2:46.0

species tens of thousands of years ago and it's it's an extraordinary sensation to have.

2:54.0

You know there were people in those caves.

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