Take a spin from within the famous stone circle.

This stunning panoramic was created on a beautiful crisp morning, just days before the Timewatch dig

Source:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/stonehenge/flash/panorama.swf

The programme was broadcast on 21 March to an audience of 1.7 million, which was one of the highest in the current series of Timewatch and was the most-watched programme on BBC2 that day.

Press reaction includes:

“Saturday evening brings a great wash of game shows, sport and frenetic -forensic US cop shows – fine if you like that kind of thing but if you don’t your only hope is BBC2, doggedly broadcasting worthwhile documentaries like a good kid trying to make up for delinquent peers.” (Financial Times)

“this excellent edition of Timewatch” The Daily Mail

“this evocative edition” – The Sunday Times

“gripping detail” FT

“this fascinating documentary” The Guardian

“fascinating …Timewatch movingly tells the story of James McCudden & Edward Mannock” TV Times

“Its fitting that their heroism and sacrifice should not be forgotten” Mail on Sunday

Archaeologists carrying out an excavation at Stonehenge say they have broken through to a layer that may finally explain why the site was built.

The team has reached sockets that once held bluestones – smaller stones, most now missing or uprooted, which formed the site’s original structure.

The researchers believe that the bluestones could reveal that Stonehenge was once a place of healing.

The dig is the first to take place at Stonehenge for more than 40 years.

The team now needs to extract organic material from these holes to date when the stones first arrived.

Professor Tim Darvill, of Bournemouth University, who is leading the work with Professor Geoff Wainwright, president of the Society of Antiquaries, said: “The first week has gone really well. We have broken through to these key features.

“It is a slow process but at the moment everything is going exactly to plan.”

The two-week excavation is being funded by the BBC and filmed for a special Timewatch programme to be broadcast in the autumn.

Professors Darvill and Wainwright say that finding out more about the history of the bluestones could be key to solving the mystery of why the 4,500-year-old landmark was erected.

They believe that the bluestones, which were transported 250km (150 miles) from the Preseli Hills in Wales to the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, were brought to the site because the ancient people believed they had healing properties.

Professor Geoffrey Wainwright said the site could have been a “Neolithic Lourdes”.

The giant sarsen “goal posts”, which came from about 20km (12 miles) away, were thought to have arrived much later.

As well as reaching the bluestone sockets, the archaeologists have also unearthed a whole host of other finds as they have peeled back the layers of the 2.5m-by-3.5m (8.2ft-by-11.5ft) trench.

These include a beaker pottery fragment, Roman ceramics and ancient stone hammers.

Daily text and video reports on the Stonehenge dig are published at the BBC Timewatch website. A BBC Two documentary will be broadcast in the autumn and will detail the findings of the investigation

Archaeologists carrying out an excavation at Stonehenge say they have broken through to a layer that may finally explain why the site was built.

The team has reached sockets that once held bluestones – smaller stones, most now missing or uprooted, which formed the site’s original structure.

The researchers believe that the bluestones could reveal that Stonehenge was once a place of healing.

The dig is the first to take place at Stonehenge for more than 40 years.

The team now needs to extract organic material from these holes to date when the stones first arrived.

Professor Tim Darvill, of Bournemouth University, who is leading the work with Professor Geoff Wainwright, president of the Society of Antiquaries, said: “The first week has gone really well. We have broken through to these key features.

“It is a slow process but at the moment everything is going exactly to plan.”

The two-week excavation is being funded by the BBC and filmed for a special Timewatch programme to be broadcast in the autumn.

Professors Darvill and Wainwright say that finding out more about the history of the bluestones could be key to solving the mystery of why the 4,500-year-old landmark was erected.

They believe that the bluestones, which were transported 250km (150 miles) from the Preseli Hills in Wales to the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, were brought to the site because the ancient people believed they had healing properties.

Professor Geoffrey Wainwright said the site could have been a “Neolithic Lourdes”.

The giant sarsen “goal posts”, which came from about 20km (12 miles) away, were thought to have arrived much later.

As well as reaching the bluestone sockets, the archaeologists have also unearthed a whole host of other finds as they have peeled back the layers of the 2.5m-by-3.5m (8.2ft-by-11.5ft) trench.

These include a beaker pottery fragment, Roman ceramics and ancient stone hammers.

Daily text and video reports on the Stonehenge dig are published at the BBC Timewatch website. A BBC Two documentary will be broadcast in the autumn and will detail the findings of the investigation

Archaeologists carrying out an excavation at Stonehenge say they have broken through to a layer that may finally explain why the site was built.

The team has reached sockets that once held bluestones – smaller stones, most now missing or uprooted, which formed the site’s original structure.

The researchers believe that the bluestones could reveal that Stonehenge was once a place of healing.

The dig is the first to take place at Stonehenge for more than 40 years.

The team now needs to extract organic material from these holes to date when the stones first arrived.

Professor Tim Darvill, of Bournemouth University, who is leading the work with Professor Geoff Wainwright, president of the Society of Antiquaries, said: “The first week has gone really well. We have broken through to these key features.

“It is a slow process but at the moment everything is going exactly to plan.”

The two-week excavation is being funded by the BBC and filmed for a special Timewatch programme to be broadcast in the autumn.

Professors Darvill and Wainwright say that finding out more about the history of the bluestones could be key to solving the mystery of why the 4,500-year-old landmark was erected.

They believe that the bluestones, which were transported 250km (150 miles) from the Preseli Hills in Wales to the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, were brought to the site because the ancient people believed they had healing properties.

Professor Geoffrey Wainwright said the site could have been a “Neolithic Lourdes”.

The giant sarsen “goal posts”, which came from about 20km (12 miles) away, were thought to have arrived much later.

As well as reaching the bluestone sockets, the archaeologists have also unearthed a whole host of other finds as they have peeled back the layers of the 2.5m-by-3.5m (8.2ft-by-11.5ft) trench.

These include a beaker pottery fragment, Roman ceramics and ancient stone hammers.

Daily text and video reports on the Stonehenge dig are published at the BBC Timewatch website. A BBC Two documentary will be broadcast in the autumn and will detail the findings of the investigation

Archaeologists carrying out an excavation at Stonehenge say they have broken through to a layer that may finally explain why the site was built.

The team has reached sockets that once held bluestones – smaller stones, most now missing or uprooted, which formed the site’s original structure.

The researchers believe that the bluestones could reveal that Stonehenge was once a place of healing.

The dig is the first to take place at Stonehenge for more than 40 years.

The team now needs to extract organic material from these holes to date when the stones first arrived.

Professor Tim Darvill, of Bournemouth University, who is leading the work with Professor Geoff Wainwright, president of the Society of Antiquaries, said: “The first week has gone really well. We have broken through to these key features.

“It is a slow process but at the moment everything is going exactly to plan.”

The two-week excavation is being funded by the BBC and filmed for a special Timewatch programme to be broadcast in the autumn.

Professors Darvill and Wainwright say that finding out more about the history of the bluestones could be key to solving the mystery of why the 4,500-year-old landmark was erected.

They believe that the bluestones, which were transported 250km (150 miles) from the Preseli Hills in Wales to the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, were brought to the site because the ancient people believed they had healing properties.

Professor Geoffrey Wainwright said the site could have been a “Neolithic Lourdes”.

The giant sarsen “goal posts”, which came from about 20km (12 miles) away, were thought to have arrived much later.

As well as reaching the bluestone sockets, the archaeologists have also unearthed a whole host of other finds as they have peeled back the layers of the 2.5m-by-3.5m (8.2ft-by-11.5ft) trench.

These include a beaker pottery fragment, Roman ceramics and ancient stone hammers.

Daily text and video reports on the Stonehenge dig are published at the BBC Timewatch website. A BBC Two documentary will be broadcast in the autumn and will detail the findings of the investigation

Archaeologists carrying out an excavation at Stonehenge say they have broken through to a layer that may finally explain why the site was built.

The team has reached sockets that once held bluestones – smaller stones, most now missing or uprooted, which formed the site’s original structure.

The researchers believe that the bluestones could reveal that Stonehenge was once a place of healing.

The dig is the first to take place at Stonehenge for more than 40 years.

The team now needs to extract organic material from these holes to date when the stones first arrived.

Professor Tim Darvill, of Bournemouth University, who is leading the work with Professor Geoff Wainwright, president of the Society of Antiquaries, said: “The first week has gone really well. We have broken through to these key features.

“It is a slow process but at the moment everything is going exactly to plan.”

The two-week excavation is being funded by the BBC and filmed for a special Timewatch programme to be broadcast in the autumn.

Professors Darvill and Wainwright say that finding out more about the history of the bluestones could be key to solving the mystery of why the 4,500-year-old landmark was erected.

They believe that the bluestones, which were transported 250km (150 miles) from the Preseli Hills in Wales to the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, were brought to the site because the ancient people believed they had healing properties.

Professor Geoffrey Wainwright said the site could have been a “Neolithic Lourdes”.

The giant sarsen “goal posts”, which came from about 20km (12 miles) away, were thought to have arrived much later.

As well as reaching the bluestone sockets, the archaeologists have also unearthed a whole host of other finds as they have peeled back the layers of the 2.5m-by-3.5m (8.2ft-by-11.5ft) trench.

These include a beaker pottery fragment, Roman ceramics and ancient stone hammers.

Daily text and video reports on the Stonehenge dig are published at the BBC Timewatch website. A BBC Two documentary will be broadcast in the autumn and will detail the findings of the investigation

Hoe drie graphic designers d-day in vier dagen hebben kunnen naspelen op film. Ik bekeek het fragment op Youtube toen er nog maar 2000 internetgebruikers de compilatie hadden gezien. Nu inmiddels bijna 2 miljoen viewers. Apart en de moeite waard. Daarnaast ook gewoon een erg gaaf filmpje.

In this clip presenter Richard Hammond introduces a video of how three graphic designers created D-Day on a shoe string budget for the Timewatch programme “Bloody Omaha”. It is quite amazing.

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De mensen van de BBC laten even zien hoe de opening sequens van Saving Private Ryan ook op 4 dagen en met 3 slechts extra’s hadden kunnen ingeblikt worden. In Bloody Omaha doet Richard Hammond, die we allemaal kennen van het schitterende Top Gear en het vreselijke Brainiac, ons nogmaals door de invasie op D-day. Mijn petje gaat af voor de mensen die hiervoor de productie en post-productie verzorgden.

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Las personas que han visto la película “Salvando al soldado Ryan” (Saving Private Ryan) en la cual se muestra, al principio del film una de las más sangrientas  batallas, que se pudiera mostrar en película alguna.

Para realizarla fué necesario utilizar miles de personas (extras), cantidades inmensas de utilerías y miles o millones de dólares.

Pues, el programa de televisión británico “Timewatch” con un pequeñísimo presupuesto, encargó recrear el desembarco de Normandía a tres diseñadores gráficos.  Ellos con solo una cámara, unas cuantas utilerías, mucho talento e imaginaginación, se meten en un carro y se pasan cuatro días en la playa de Omaha recreando el místico día “D”. La misma escena, de “Salvando al soldado Ryan”. Ahora vean ustedes los resultados en este video.

 Vía fogonazos

Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon, first Duke of Suffolk.Mary is interred at St. Mary’s Church in Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk. [Further reading: Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk c. 1484-1545 by S. J. Gunn Blackwell 1988]

Presumed to have been named after Henry VIII’s sister, The Mary Rose ship has featured on television a couple of times in the past few days with a repeat of the Timewatch: The Secrets of he Mary Rose on Saturday and on the news today concerning The Mary Rose Trust’s application to the Heritage Lottery Fund. The Mary Rose is a national treasure which could soon be lost.

The Mary Rose Trust needs £35m to complete conservation work and to house the vessel in a new, permanent museum – but it can only raise £14m by itself. Admiral John Lippiett, chief executive of the trust, said the ship’s fate is now once again in the hands of the Heritage Lottery Fund, which is considering an application for the remaining £21m.Last year, a bid for £13.5m from the Heritage Lottery Fund failed.He said: “If we aren’t successful, the outlook would be very gloomy indeed.“We have a small museum which is a temporary exhibition, and the ship is in a temporary structure which was built in the early 80s with a 10-year life.“The conservation is costing us many hundreds of thousands a year.“If there is no funding, then there will be no Mary Rose. It is as stark as that.“Eventually the Mary Rose will cease to be a visitor attraction, it would have to be disposed of…sold for firewood, who knows?”A successful bid would secure the ship’s future and transform visitors’ experiences.After years of spraying to replace seawater with conserving chemicals, the ship would finally be released from her misty cocoon.Then she would be reunited with exhibits in the nearby Mary Rose Museum and another 14,000 stunning artefacts, which are currently locked away.Cannons and cannonballs, pewterware, wooden plates and jugs and Tudor gold coins are among some of the items brought up since the ship was raised after 437 years under the sea.Only half the hull was found to be intact when she raised from the Solent in October 1982.Twenty years later, the bowcastle – the raised front section of the ship – and the anchor were brought up after being missed during original excavation.

Mr Lippiett said: “The spraying comes to an end in 2011, then we want to bake her dry and build a new museum over the top of where she sits now in the dry dock.

“We want to build the other half of the hull as a virtual hull and then put the artefacts back in so visitors will really see this time capsule as it was on the day she sank.

“It is an extraordinary collection – the finest anywhere in the world – and this is the only 16th Century ship that exists like this.

“It would be a wonderful visitor attraction for Portsmouth and the south of England. We want to have the conservation completed and the new museum open by 2016.”

The application will be decided on 22 January.

Mr Lippiett said he and his team had done everything possible to secure a positive outcome.

“The Mary Rose is a national icon. She is absolutely unique in the world. We have got to keep her.”

Just what did the Mary Rose tell us?

For my knitting coterie:

Life on Board: clothing: page 2

The most complete woollen garment identified is a jerkin. This was decoratively edged with a green silk braid and fastened with four woollen buttons. Discovered inside this jerkin were large fragments of woollen fabric, dyed yellow and checked in red, possibly the remains of a shirt. A large woollen fragment with stitched eyelet holes for the attachment of laces may be the waist area of a pair of hose. Several small fragments found inside shoes or boots may also be the remains of woollen hose.

Three woollen knitted hats resembling flat brimmed berets have been recovered. Two of these are intact and have silk linings. Another knitted item recovered virtually complete is a scogger, a versatile sleeve rather like a modern legwarmer that could be worn either on the arm or lower leg.