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Lake District’s secrets revealed
A new exhibition showing how the Lake District’s landscape has developed over the years is set to open in Cumbria.
Called ‘Unlocking the past, understanding the present’, the installation will open to the public on 14 March at the Lake District Visitor Centre at Brockhole, on the shores of Windermere.
Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the exhibition - designed to introduce archaeology in a hands-on way - will run until the beginning of November.
A comprehensive county-wide tour follows, which has already been booked up until 2010.
Lake District National Park Authority’s access to archaeology project officer Lisa Keys said: "The idea was to provide a taster to those with little or no knowledge about how this spectacular area was shaped by our forebears.
The exhibition goes back to the end of the Ice Age and shows what happened over 12,000 years was not just a natural process.
The exhibition tells the story in nine phases, with visitors being able to take part in interactive experiences.
The Lake District’s 2,292 square kilometres is rich in history and boasts 275 scheduled monuments, 1,740 listed buildings and structures and 21 conservation areas.
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