Ice Age Insights

Ice Age Insights is a charity that promotes investigation of Palaeolithic archaeology and geology in the East Midlands. (Registered charity number 1169575). Our partnership is a collaborative project working on Late Upper Palaeolithic sites at Farndon Fields, Bradgate Park and Creswell Crags. This will extend our understanding of early cultures living in what is now present day England soon after the last Ice Age.

We continue a project at Bradgate Park, Leicestershire. This year we undertook a geophysics survey. Next year, 2025, we begin test pitting again in search of the elusive Late Upper Palaeolithic hunting site presumed to be on Bradgate Lawns.

The Archaeological Data Service hosts our earlier reports, images and spreadsheet data from fieldwork undertaken at Bradgate in September 2021 - Archaeological Fieldwork at Bradgate Park Lawns, Leicestershire September 2021.

You can now read our National Lottery Heritage Fund Project, Ice Age Partnership – Evaluation Report

Take our Ice Age Walk via Google Earth on web

Dip into molehill archaeology investigating the prehistoric landscape at Belton House, Lincolnshire

Read our publications on Bradgate Park & Ground Patterning

View our Ritual Protection, Parish Boundaries & Ice Age Animals of Britain conferences held at Creswell Crags

Watch our 2021 excavations at Bradgate Park, Leicestershire

Image: Experimenting with an atlatl, a spear-thrower at Bradgate Park Late Upper Palaeolithic site