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Video playlist
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Introduction: classroom cinema
Introduction, setting the scene for Stone Age times
through the Castlerigg stone circle in Cumbria.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 5 min (V263)
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Stonehenge Drone
Explore Stonehenge from the sky.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 4 min
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Avebury
Avebury is the world's biggest stone circle. But outside it is an even bigger henge.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 4 min
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Uffington Castle
Shows how Iron Age hill forts were made using spectacular aerial footage.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 5 min
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White horse
The history the world's first work of art as a white horse - 100 long and built 3000 or more years ago!
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 4 min
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Mammoths and hunting
Shows the end of the Ice Age and the nature of hunting and gathering in Middle Stone Age times.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 5 min (V264)
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The first farms
Find out what happened in Late Stone Age times as people began to farm.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 4 min (V265)
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Cave paintings
Explains how cave paintings were made about 20,000 years ago.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 8 min (V266)
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Skara Brae Stone Age village
Reconstruct the famous Stone Age village in Orkney.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 7 min (V267)
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Axe knapping
Explains how hand axes were made.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 3 min (V268)
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Axes through the ages
Explains what Early Stone Age and Middle Stone Age hand axes were like. Includes axes a third of a million years old!
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 14 min (V269)
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Hand axe
What a Stone Age hand axe looks like.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 40 sec (V897)
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Flint cutter
A pice of flint used as a cutting tool in the Stone Age.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 30 sec (V879)
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Stone Age arrowheads
Arrowheads from the Stone Age period.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 30 sec (V880)
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Avebury Stone Circle
Describes how the temple was built and used.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 9 min (V270)
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Long barrow
Explains how the Wayland's Smithy long barrow was used.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 4 min
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Moving Stonehenge
Describes how the great stones might have been moved to Stonehenge. Cross curricular with Science Forces.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 8 min (V271)
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A Bronze Age house
Explains what family life was like in the Bronze Age home.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 5 min (V272)
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A Bronze Age farm
Explains what farming was like in the Bronze Age.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 3 min (V273)
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An Iron Age house
Explains what family life was like in the Iron Age home.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 5 min (V274)
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Iron Age farming
Explains what strip lynchets were like, and why they were used.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 2 min (V275)
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An Iron Age fort
Explains how an Iron Age hillfort was used.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 8 min (V111)
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A Scottish broch
Explains what a Scottish fortified house from the Iron Age was like.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 4 min (V276)
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Making pottage
Cooking a pottage. This video uses modern tools but explains the reasons why it was the key meal throughout the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, and beyond.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age', 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 8 min (V1040)
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Brooches
Two different styles of decorative brooch used to fasten clothes in Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1148)
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