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Ian Wall

Archaeologist and former Director of Creswell Crags (Creswell Heritage Trust), commentator on the BBC's Digging for Britain.

Oct 17, 2026

16:51
Thank you.
16:55
So you're, you're now standing at the level that, uh, we think our prehistoric ancestors were sort of 12,000, 13,000 years ago.
17:04
So it's the best place to actually view the rock art that they were creating.
18:18
So how do you know that that is Ice Age?
18:22
Crucially, you get these deposits of, uh, flow stone.
18:25
It's redeposited calcite, and that forms a, a thin skin of deposit, and sometimes that lies over the top of these engraved lines.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
63:42
Thank you.
63:46
So you're now standing at the level that we think our prehistoric ancestors were 12, 13,000 years ago.
63:55
So it's the best place to actually view the rock art that they were creating.
65:09
So how do you know that that is ice age?
65:13
Crucially, you get these deposits of flowstone, it's redeposited calcite, and that forms a thin skin of deposit, and sometimes that lies over the top of these engraved lines.
65:27
That's this

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