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The kings and heroes of britain possessed these divine hallows during the divine age a time when arthur and merlin protected the realm. They aim to do for the national narrative what unauthorised. In 1982 publisher byron preiss buries 12 treasure boxes in 12 north american cities and releases a book of enigmatic images and verses, offering clues to their locations. So, all praise to the channel for screening the series britain s secret treasures, an attempt, so the accompanying publicity blurb states, to uncover a fresh hoard of extraordinary objects found by ordinary people that have changed our understanding of british history. Jul 16, 2012 we are talking about the presenters latest history programme, britains secret treasures, a collaboration between itv and the british museum, in which hughes and a team of experts hunt down. Either way, it is an incredibly rare find from britain s roman past. Lists of the items appear in texts dating to the 15th and 16th centuries.
Our top ten treasures was a 2003 special episode of the bbc television series meet the ancestors which profiled the ten most important treasures unearthed in britain, as voted for by a panel of experts from the british museum. Britains secret treasures s01e06 video dailymotion. Britain s secret treasures tuesday, september 25, 2012. The 1982 treasure hunt book, the secret, has clues to 12 hidden gems. The quest to find 12 hidden treasures from a 1982 treasure. Presented by awardwinning journalist michael buerk and historian and author bettany hughes, the series will map out the 50 key. Buy my book it profiles 80 artefacts featured in the series, including the wreck of the hms colossus, the happisburgh handaxe, the staffordshire hoard and the.
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Episode and series guides for britain s secret treasures. With michael buerk, bettany hughes, claire barratt, gethin jones. A glut of titles promise to reveal hidden, lost, undiscovered, neglected or otherwise adjectivally appended versions of britain. Britains secret treasures is a great book that highlights how important ordinary people are to the important quest to secure our national heritage. Series 2 awardwinning journalist michael buerk and leading historian and broadcaster bettany hughes return to itv for a brand new series of britains secret treasures. The book was authored by sean kelly and ted mann and illustrated by john jude palencar, john pierard, and overton loyd. Buy the paperback book britain s secret treasures by maryann ochota at indigo. The secret is a continentsized treasure hunt thats been going on for close to 40 years. Britain s secret treasures is a british documentary shown on itv hosted by michael buerk and bettany hughes. Britains treasures from the air british countryside. Excellent photographs of the various treasures are accompanied by a description of how the find occurred as well as details about the likely provenance and historical significance of each item. Katherine jenkins discovers the story behind a trove of iron age jewellery, and mary ann ochota goes diving off the isles of scilly. Find out when britain s secret treasures is on tv, including series 1episode 1. Thirteen treasures of the island of britain wikipedia.
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