The Pagans

S1, E12: A team of field investigators uncovers the clues that will recreate vanished or hidden worlds. They use the latest research, expert analysis and cutting edge graphic technology to take us back. Five thousand years ago in the late Stone Age, before the pyramids of Egypt were built, the pagan people of the British Isles constructed some of the greatest monuments of the ancient world. Across the country fabulous constructions of wood, earth and stone were rising. We enter the world of their builders. We travel from the ancient stone villages of the Orkney Islands, off the north coast of Scotland, to Stonehenge, in Southern England. Lost Worlds reveals a startling new theory about the role that this extraordinary structure played in the lives of the people who erected it. Using computer animation we reconstruct the monument as it appeared to those people. We then trace a forgotten ancient pathway to Stonehenge's lost twin -- Woodhenge. We explore the secrets of Silbury Hill, the world's largest man-made mound, erected by people equipped only with tools made from antler and bone. Over the centuries, people have dug here in vain in search of tombs and treasure, but our investigators track down the real reason behind this extraordinary engineering achievement. On the South coast of England the enormous earthworks of Maiden Castle witnessed the end of the Pagan world. Built to defend against enemies who fought hand to hand, its walls proved little defense against the artillery of the Roman legions. Our experts rebuild the fortress whose capture all but destroyed Britain's pagan way of life. Using the latest archaeological research and a new understanding of pagan beliefs, Lost Worlds will piece together the evidence in the stones and use cutting edge computer animation to reconstruct the lost world of the pagans.