...in which we rewind the centuries to the Neolithic Age on a journey in search of Lakeland's earliest settlers and their highly-valued stone axes. In the company of archaeologist Steve Dickinson, we set out from Brotherilkeld – the great medieval farmstead with Norse roots. Leaving the valley walls behind, we enter wild country, once a place of forest groves and wood pasture stalked by deer and lynx, wolves and bears. As we trace the river upstream, we imagine the 6000-year-old endeavours of our earliest ancestors, as they left their coastal settlements in search of a rare band of volcanic cutting stone. Arriving atop Scar Lathing – a maiden ascent for Mark and Dave – we seek out two extraordinary archaeological finds that paint a picture of a lost civilisation: of Cumbria's first extractive industry; of ritual burials; and of a deep communion with high places that was etched into immaculately crafted artefacts.
Steve is on Twitter at @SteveDickinson2
Countrystride #84: Latrigg - with Friends of the Lake District
Countrystride #83: Alston & Isaac’s Tea Trail
Countrystride #82: Dry-stone walling
Countrystride #81: Cumbrian dialect
Countrystride #80: ILLGILL HEAD - In search of the sublime
Countrystride #79: Arthur Ransome - Life, loves & literature
Countrystride #78: The Carlisle-Settle line & springtime in Eden
Countrystride #77: Fell ponies – On Roundthwaite Common with Libby Robinson
Countrystride #76: Wild Fell – Restoring Haweswater, with Lee Schofield
COUNTRYSTRIDE #75: The battle to save Ullswater
Countrystride #74: Railways of Cumbria
Countrystride #73: Millican Dalton - ’Caveman of Borrowdale’
Countrystride #72: Review of 2021
Countrystride #71: A Lake District Christmas
Countrystride #70: Caldbeck - A community through time
Countrystride #69: Blencathra with Andy Airey
Countrystride #68: Richard Leafe - The National Park at 70
Countrystride #67: Ghosts on the coast
Countrystride#66: Eskdale - Rain & recollections
Countrystride #65: The passionate sisterhood - Sisters and wives of the Lake Poets
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