Ice Age Journeys is a community project based around Farndon Fields, near Newark, Nottinghamshire where flint, tools some 14,000 years old, were dropped by the first colonizers of England at the end of the last Ice Age.
ABOUT ICE AGE JOURNEYS
Ice Age Journeys is a community project based around Farndon Fields, near Newark, Nottinghamshire where flint tools, some 14,000 years old, were dropped by the first colonizers of England at the end of the last Ice Age. We provide opportunities for all to learn about the archaeology and geology of the Ice Ages. Since 2012 we have been involving local people and introducing many to ‘hands-on’ archaeology, firing imaginations, and building enthusiasm and understanding.
HIGHLIGHTS OF CURRENT PROJECTS
SITES AND SKILLS OF THE LATE AGE
To celebrate some of the results from our partnership with Bradgate Park and Creswell Crags, in November we hosted a conference with the CBA East Midlands supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Nine speakers, covering our local sites, artefacts and the skills that people practised in their daily lives, were recorded. The last video is of a flint-knapping workshop at Creswell Crags led by James Dilley.
Continue enjoying more from Ice Age Journeys research by watching all the talks Sites and Skills of the Late Age conference here.
ICE AGE MARATHON
The course of the Newark half-marathon runs past the Ice Age site at Farndon. We suspect that our prehistoric hunters moved similar distances to journey to their camps by the river. To inspire our volunteers who run the marathon, Ian Ross devised some bitesize information buttons scattered along the course. Click return to Home Page for carousels of fieldwork and more site images, and, if you’re really keen, some online reading.
To find out more about Ice Age Marathon, you can visit their website here.
Return to the History and Archaeology Festival by clicking here
