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.
Travel back to the last ice age or even earlier ones and discover pingos!
Pingos are dome-shaped mounds found in present day tundra regions where groundwater is permanently frozen as permafrost. In a few places the ice pushes up iconic volcanic-like mounds. They are found where average annual temperatures are about -10°C, with summers no warmer than +10°C, and winters perhaps as low as -20°C or worse. Visit Ground patterning to find out all about it.
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
View our Ritual Protection, Parish Boundaries & Ice Age Animals of Britain conferences held at Creswell Crags
Image: Experimenting with an atlatl, a spear-thrower at Bradgate Park Late Upper Palaeolithic site