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Archaeolink Prehistory Park

In this Park visitors can travel 10.000 years back in history in a single day, starting at the Mesolithic and early Neolithic era (ca. 9000-8500 BC) and ending at the end of the Roman domination of Great Britain (century V AC).

The Park is divided into historical periods. One sector is devoted to the Mesolithic replicating human reoccupation of Great Britain at the end of the last Ice Age. The first humans to get there were small groups of hunter-gatherers with enough technology to make tools and leather drying. Within the park, a Hunter-Gatherer encampment has been reconstructed and workshops and demonstrations illustrate the way people lived. There is also an area devoted to the Neolithic, an era signalled by the appearance of agriculture and domestic stockbreeding. It was in this period that stone circles or stone henges were erected and some of them have been reconstructed.

The park also depicts life in the Bronze and Iron Age. Visitors of these areas will discover individual burial sites, huts, jewellery and tool making techniques, -among many others- from these periods which are also on display.

Finally, there is an area devoted to the Roman world. Visitors will learn about the arrival of Roman troops to Scotland with British governor Julius Agricola's campaigns to subdue the Scottish tribes in 79 AC or the building of Hadrian's Wall. On site is a reconstruction of Roman Army Marching Camp with a cemetery, legionaries' tents and equipment. Workshops are also made and visitors have the opportunity to become Roman legionaries for some hours.