Talk: Traces of our ancestors: 12,000 years of Dartmoor archaeology with Dr Lee Bray
Saturday 2nd May, 12:30, Ashburton Arts Centre
The history of human activity on Dartmoor goes back more than 12,000 years, to the end of the last ice age. Here people have lived, farmed, worked stone and minerals, practised their religion and buried their dead. All these activities have marked the landscape in different ways, from the tombs and ceremonial monuments of the first farmers of the Neolithic to the mining remains left behind by Victorian entrepreneurs. From stone circles to menhirs and ancient farmsteads, Dartmoor National Park archaeologist Dr Lee Bray will take you on a fascinating, illustrated journey through time, exploring the changing nature of the human relationship with Dartmoor through the remains and landscapes our ancestors left behind.
Dr Lee Bray is Cornish by birth and was originally a geologist. He is now an archaeologist having gained a PhD from the University of Exeter focussing on Roman iron working on Exmoor. Having worked across the South West he is now part of the archaeological team for Dartmoor National Park, a post he has held for ten years
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Photos: courtesy Lee Bray, Grey Wethers stone circles, by Sophie Pierce