We are continuing with our Thirty-One Days of Time Team and we are throwing it back to the past with an episode from Season 3 and a prehistoric Fogou.
Tony is roaming a tunnel under a garden, what was it doing there? Who built it? What was it used for? The Tunnel is a feature in the center of a garden. The Garden belongs to Jo and Tony meets up with him and Robin. They talk about the feature and a map of the garden. This map was drawn up by an antiquarian. The trio walks around the site. There seems to hint at another tunnel. What will the Time Team discover about this feature? Can the Time Team find the other tunnel? Can they find the site of the Iron Age settlement associated with the fogou? The site is now home to the 19th Century. The Time Team will not be able to dig at the fogou itself because it is a protected site. Jo had dowsers on the property and they said that there was a second tunnel. Mick is skeptical and will wait for the geophysics results. The geophysics results hint at something curving that joins up with the fogou. What was the purpose of the fogou, that remains a mystery? Were they a place of refuge? A tunnel to escape warring armies? Or were they just used for storage? Mick and Tony explore the fogou and examine the tunnel carefully. There were ten fogous discovered in Cornwall and they were near rivers. There were more fogous discovered in Brittany and they are even more numerous in numbers. In Ireland, there were 1,000 fogous discovered. However, the big question looming over Time Team, will they find more of a fogou. Trench One goes in and immediately a water pipe is discovered. Mick and Phil give the geophysics team a hard time about discovering a pipe. Tony catches up with Mick and Phil. He brings out a map that the water dowsers drew. The water dowser hints at a different location for the tunnel extension. Mick is skeptical about water dousing. Phil recommends that the water dowser goes over the land again. Tony tries out water dousing. Mick agrees to put in a “new age trench” in the ground. Victor works on a drawing of the enclosed settlement and Robin, Jo, Carenza, and a local archeologist work with him on the drawing. The Time Team is hoping to find evidence of settlement. The dowsers’ trench is coming up empty as well. Mick makes the call to put in another test trench to see if any additional evidence can be discovered. The Time Team plans on looking at the landscape to see where they can look for the fogou extension. Is the extension under the house? At night, the Time Team gets together for a sum up and the only trench that seems to show promise is Carenza’s trench which was dug over the wall of a potential enclosure. It was the one area of the property that was not disturbed when the house was built. So her trench is an extension and an Iron Age pot piece is discovered. Will this pot hint at an Iron Age settlement? What would a settlement look like during this period? What would the people have done? Will Time Team find additional hints of settlement? Is another fogou on the verge of being discovered? Will Mick get over his feelings against water dowsing? Will Phil be turned into a tin miner? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out. As frustrating as it was at the start of the episode, the Time Team turned it around and managed to find additional evidence about the history of the fogou. The section on Tin Making was fascinating and Phil was delighted with his efforts in making tin. This would be a good episode to show for a fun day.
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A Thirteenth-Century of portrait of Christ was found in an outhouse in a village founded by the Templars. Time Team aims to find out more about the village they discovered and more about the Templars themselves. A modern-day Knights Templar member invited the Time Team to learn more about his house. Tony Robinson meets up with Mick Robinson to determine the area where the Time Team will dig.
The Templars started as a monastery with walls and a gatehouse. The home where they settled has undergone many renovations over the years. A historic buildings expert joins up with the Time Team. The home is in an intriguing “L” shape. However, it is behind the house on a farm that the Time Team will be investigating. There was a ditch in a field and may have been a boundary of the monastery. Mick quickly draws was the monastery site would have looked like and talks about other Templar sites. He discusses how similar this site compares to other sites. Time Team starts in on a first trench in the north farm field that seems to hint at a boundary ditch. Will the Time Team find dating evidence in the ditch? Tony and Mick catch up with Phil to find out. There seems to be a hint of a wall in the ditch. The Time Team has also discovered floor tiles. So has the Time Team firmly established that this was part of a final boundary? Robin and Carenza are in the archives and may have found a chapel on the site. Was it a Medieval Chapel? The Templars had a chapel in 1309 and even a chapel was mentioned in the Doomsday Book. So will the Time Team find a Medieval Chapel on the site? Back at the house, there is an ancient beam discovered. It is a fireplace mantel and may have been part of the original home for the Templars. The Time Team brings in a dendrochronologist on site. Tony is skeptical that the results will be produced in time. The dendrochronologist assures Tony that the results will be produced in time. Robin and Tony meet up and talk about the Knights Templar. The village where the Knight Templar had only three “fighting monks” at once. Eventually, the village was taken over by the Knights Hospitaller. Carenza and Phil continue to investigate the possibility of a chapel on the site. There was a photograph of a potential chapel that was believed to be from the Middle Ages. Upon further investigation, there is a doorstep in a wall that seems to hint at the potential of the current wall being a former chapel. A second trench is being dug at the potential chapel site. At the end of the night, the Time Team gets together to do a catch-up. The geophysics results are still incomplete. So Mick determines that the two trenches will be expanded. Tony then asks to see when a dendrochronology date will become available. The dendrochronologist comes in and gives them the date for one of the beams and the tree was chopped down no later than 1610. So the beam they found was not Templar. Despite this, there was plenty of other evidence that the site is Templar. So what will be found in the farmer’s strawberry patch? What other evidence will be uncovered to tell the story of the Knights Templar in England? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out more about the Knights Templar! This throwback episode was a cool episode to watch, especially seeing how many different experts came together to tell the story of the Knights Templar house and village. The Village of the Templars would be an episode to show for a fun day in history. A Thirteenth-Century of portrait of Christ was found in an outhouse in a village founded by the Templars. Time Team aims to find out more about the village they discovered and more about the Templars themselves. A modern-day Knights Templar member invited the Time Team to learn more about his house. Tony Robinson meets up with Mick Robinson to determine the area where the Time Team will dig. The Templars started as a monastery with walls and a gatehouse. The home where they settled has undergone many renovations over the years. A historic buildings expert joins up with the Time Team. The home is in an intriguing “L” shape. However, it is behind the house on a farm that the Time Team will be investigating. There was a ditch in a field and may have been a boundary of the monastery. Mick quickly draws was the monastery site would have looked like and talks about other Templar sites. He discusses how similar this site compares to other sites. Time Team starts in on a first trench in the north farm field that seems to hint at a boundary ditch. Will the Time Team find dating evidence in the ditch? Tony and Mick catch up with Phil to find out. There seems to be a hint of a wall in the ditch. The Time Team has also discovered floor tiles. So has the Time Team firmly established that this was part of a final boundary? Robin and Carenza are in the archives and may have found a chapel on the site. Was it a Medieval Chapel? The Templars had a chapel in 1309 and even a chapel was mentioned in the Doomsday Book. So will the Time Team find a Medieval Chapel on the site? Back at the house, there is an ancient beam discovered. It is a fireplace mantel and may have been part of the original home for the Templars. The Time Team brings in a dendrochronologist on site. Tony is skeptical that the results will be produced in time. The dendrochronologist assures Tony that the results will be produced in time. Robin and Tony meet up and talk about the Knights Templar. The village where the Knight Templar had only three “fighting monks” at once. Eventually, the village was taken over by the Knights Hospitaller. Carenza and Phil continue to investigate the possibility of a chapel on the site. There was a photograph of a potential chapel that was believed to be from the Middle Ages. Upon further investigation, there is a doorstep in a wall that seems to hint at the potential of the current wall being a former chapel. A second trench is being dug at the potential chapel site. At the end of the night, the Time Team gets together to do a catch-up. The geophysics results are still incomplete. So Mick determines that the two trenches will be expanded. Tony then asks to see when a dendrochronology date will become available. The dendrochronologist comes in and gives them the date for one of the beams and the tree was chopped down no later than 1610. So the beam they found was not Templar. Despite this, there was plenty of other evidence that the site is Templar. So what will be found in the farmer’s strawberry patch? What other evidence will be uncovered to tell the story of the Knights Templar in England? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out more about the Knights Templar! This throwback episode was a cool episode to watch, especially seeing how many different experts came together to tell the story of the Knights Templar house and village. The Village of the Templars would be an episode to show for a fun day in history. Good morning, the Fall edition of Thirty-One Days of Time Team continues. This time I am going to go with a Favorite of the Time Team instead of throwing it back to when Tony Robinson had hair. This episode comes from Season 14 and was held in Stilton, Cambridgeshire.
The Time Team is looking at a ditch and this ditch has produced some excellent Roman finds. There has been some perfect pottery finds found on the site. A nearly perfectly preserved cheese press was found. Cheese has an important place in Stilton’s history. Field walkers have found various shards of poetry over the years. What will the Time Team find out in the three days about Stilton and Cheese? Tune into this episode to find out. Stilton was the center of the Roman pottery industry. The fields have been producing pieces of Roman pottery for years. The amount and quality that comes out of the ditches surprise Time Team. Rick Landy, is a local field walker who talks with Tony about the finds that have come out of the ditch. Mick and John examine one of the ditches. There was one layer of pottery discovered. What is going on with the site? They will have to use some big equipment to dig. So, the Time Team will open up a very big and very deep trench at the ditch site. Stilton was also on a major Roman road and up the road was a pottery center. There were marshes around the city that would have provided good grazing. The waterways would have provided transportation around Roman Britain. Somewhere around the Stilton area, there should have been some kilns. One of the farmers has been discovering pottery pieces. There were clusters found in the area as well. Some of the geophysics results are showing a worksite in the field. A kiln may be hidden on the site. Trench One goes over the Kiln site. The initial dig is showing the wall of a trench. John is confident of his results. A second trench goes in over an anomaly. There may be two kilns on the site, hinting at a Roman industrial site. However, as Phil digs, there are no walls to this kiln. What John has seen was the burned remains of the clay. Tony is skeptical that the site could have three kilns on the site. However, Mick and John are pointing out the evidence that leans towards there being kilns on the site. The Time Team is also doing fieldwalking. There is a Celtic coin found while on the field walk. This suggests that there was trade going on before the Romans. The finds are excellent at the start of the dig. Tony also discovers that Stilton cheese is not made in Stilton either. Stilton just lent its name to the blue cheese. In the meantime, the Time Team has discovered burials on the site. What period are these burials from? It will take a bit of unpicking to discover how old these burials are will take time. The dig continues and seems to hint that there is Roman industrial activity on the site. Stewart investigates the landscape carefully and believes that Stilton was a port at some point. The archeology finds have been interesting, so what will the Time Team continue to find at this site? Tune into the rest of the episode to find out more. This would be an excellent episode to show in geology and earth science class for a fun class session because landscape seems to take the center stage in the archeology of the site. We are continuing with our Thirty-One Days of the Time Team and we are still throwing it back to earlier seasons of the Time Team. I carefully reviewed the other the Time Team episodes I have just to double-check to see that I am not repeating an episode. I am satisfied that I did not do a blog post on this episode.
The Time Team is investigating a medieval dining hall. Tony starts off the episode as not being impressed with the site. However, the Time Team hopes to change his mind. The medieval hall is found in the Sunderland Housing Estate. The estate has some big plans for the area and they need to know the past of the area. They want to preserve the castle as best as they can. What will the Time Team discover about the site? The Local community wants to restore the castle to a working building and redevelop the park. Looking at the past will help the community figure out what to do with it. The castle was abandoned in the 1950s and English Heritage has worked to restore what remains. The castle has undergone went many changes and was first built in 1400. It started as a large medieval castle and then grew smaller. Is there more of the castle that needs to be found? The Time Team wants to fill in the map of what the castle looked like. Geophysics looks at the grounds to see what is in the ground. Tony invites some schoolboys to learn more about geophysics. John Gater gives the boys some pointers on how to use a geophysics device. This work will help the locals not build a tennis court over an ancient wall. The Time Team is also investigating the lumps and bumps on the site. This area is important to the town because it is the only green area for miles around. Geophysics has discovered a horseshoe-shaped building with buttresses. The castle is also built on an ancient site to geophysics is also picking up those ancient remains as well. Trench one and two go in. They will look for walls to see what period the castle was built. The man who built the castle was Baron William Hylton. Baron Hylton was a professional soldier and went on a crusade in Flanders. He was a pirate as well and declared an outlaw as well. Robin calls him an “over-mighty lord.” The documentary evidence and the geophysics seem to hint at a few buildings on the site. Mick and Tony walk with Bernic Morely from English Heritage to survey the remains of the castle. The innards were torn out during the Victorian period. However, English Heritage dug out and remains of the walls. The bit that survives was a gatehouse. The lower level had rooms for guards and servants. The upper rooms were for the baron’s family. The trench that was dug is not revealing a buttress as the geophysics hinted. However, there was a pile of rubble. John is still convinced that there is a wall underneath the rubble. In the second trench, Phil is excavating a wall. It is a success for the Time Team and it was possibly part of a building that Baron William built. Later in the day, one of the Time Team members has seen some faint walls in the ground. The Time Team does a catch-up at the end of the day. Is the Time Team being complacent with the finds so far? What will the Time Team discover over the next two days? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out. This would be a good episode to show during Middle Ages section in a history class. Good morning, we are continuing with the Fall Edition of Thirty-One Days of Time Team with Lords of the Isles. This is the first episode of season two of the Time Team. Tony still has his hair, and Phil was in danger of losing his hat!
There was a set of ruins that dominated a kingdom in Scotland for decades. The Time Team will brave the rain to explore a Scottish Island. The National Museum of Scotland has partnered with the Time Team to excavate the site. The Time Team needs to help with this dig because the National Museum will run out of money to fund the dig. Once the money runs out, there will be no more digs. What will the Time Team learn about the Lords of the Isles? Work has immediately started on the dig. The site contains the mainland, a larger island, and a smaller isle. The Time Team will look on the island, around the island, and on the mainland. The Time Team will also look at a mound on the mainland. This mound is noticeable in the landscape. Was mound something ceremonial to the Lords of the Isles? Were their chieftains’ declared chieftains on this mound? Tony catches up with the National Museum archeologists on site. There were four years of excavations and have produced hundreds of finds. The objects found help illustrate how the Lords of the Isles lived. Scuba divers are looking at the waters around the isles. They are having a challenge with the peat in the water. Despite this, the visibility is good for the underwater team. Next, Tony catches up with Robin to learn more about the phrase “the Lords of Isles.” Robin tells the story of a petty king who looked at an Island. He drove the Vikings out of the Island established a kingdom. They were never called the Lords of the Isles until the 14th Century. Even then the title was assumed out of the blue. The waterlogged soil is proving to be a challenge; however, this does not deter Phil from digging. The Time Team is looking at the guardhouse and the cemetery. As part of the excavation, the Time Team will reconstruct linen armor. Mick checks up on Phil in the guardhouse trench. He walked with Donald MacFayden who is in charge of the MacFayden Trust. Phil discusses the excavation. There was a nicely preserved building on the site. Eventually, the Time Team comes together and does a catch-up of what they are finding. There have not been many finds and the rain is not helping them. A second trench goes in at the top of the mound. Immediately there are finds at the top of the mound. Does this signify an ancient site? Day two kicks off at the second trench. It is windy but some good finds are being discovered. The site may have been a Mesolithic site. The second trench will be extended further. The geophysics team and Stewart Ainsworth work to map out the area. Was this mound originally an Island? All is working well. The newest finds are found in an ancient rubbish dump. Mick was supposed to help with the underwater archeology, but Tony suits up and participates in the dig. Mick and Tony go up in a helicopter and look at the landscape. Mick talks about the beach and the jetties that are in the landscape. They talk about how well-used the landscape was and how a king or a prince would feel like the landscape would legitimize his rule. What will the Time Team continue to discover about the Lords of the Isles? Will the weather change? Tune into this episode to find out more. This would be a good episode to show for a fun Friday history class. In this classic Time Team, the edge of the Roman Empire is explored in Ribchester. How did the Romans protect their edge of the Empire? A resident wrote and invited the Time Team to explore the Roman Remains. He has some Roman Remains in the garden. His house was built from those Roman fort remains. How do they relate to the Roman defense? How will the Time Team unravel the mystery of the Roman Remains?
Ribchester is situated on a river and was a major strategic site. There had been some archeological work done on the site. Most of it was done at a later Roman Fort. However, the Time Team will explore a local garden and hope to find additional evidence of an earlier Roman settlement. They will also survey the area to create a new map of the Roman fort. Phil talks with the homeowner about the remains. The remains of the fort are very well preserved. Mick and Tony go out on a walk and talk about the landscape and where to put a trench. Oftentimes, a road was put in with a little kink in it because the roadbuilders were avoiding a ditch or a wall. Mick and Tony meet up with John Gater and the geophysics team. The Geophysics team starts their work. The garden is being dug up. So why would the Romans build a fort? What were they so afraid of? Tony catches up with Robin Bush. Robin reveals that the Romans built the forts because they wanted to keep the people under control. He then talks about the different kinds of Roman forts that were built. Each fort was built according to the danger the settlements were in. Phil and the homeowner look over the trench that is being dug. The homeowner did some digging in the garden before the Time Team arrived. He had covered what he found and did not go any further. So the Time Team will go ahead and dig further. John Gater goes over the geophysics results with the team. There is evidence of a ditch in the ground. These results will determine where another trench will go in. Day two kicks off with the Time Team excavating the tower and the ditch. Tony talks about how some of the locals became friends with the Romans. A local Queen was pro-Roman and even turned in a chief who wanted to shelter him. Unfortunately, her husband was very anti-Roman. The pair divorced and King lead an uprising against the Romans. This uprising, lead to the Romans taking a different approach to the locals. Tony then catches up with Mick and trench two. The Time Team will be changing the location of the trench. They decided against the original location because they wanted to preserve the remains underneath. Tony is surprised to hear that the archeologists will not dig in an area to preserve it. The Time Team will dig a trench across a line that Geophysics discovered. Will they be digging a ditch? Does this indicate that this is a fort or a civil settlement? Phil catches up with the homeowner in regard to his backyard. They have dug deep enough to the layer of the original stone fort. Eventually, this trench will be closed, and the diggers will go to another site. Things are moving along, and the Time Team is discovering an earlier fort on the site. What else will the Time Team find out about the site? This episode of the Time Team is an older episode but a good episode. It talks about how the local tribes accepted or did not accept Roman Rule so it would be a good episode to show in a history class. Our Fall Thirty-One Days of Time Team continues with a mystery shipwreck. Tony Robinson tells the story of a teenage boy who discovered a cannon in the water. Since then, the teen has grown up and organized a dig of the ship. Time Team has been brought in to assist with the dig. What was the mystery wreck? Was it part of the Spanish Armada? Will there be enough of the ship remaining for the Time Team to explore?
This is the first time that the Time Team will participate in water archelogy and there will be plenty to learn. Will water archeology be different from land archaeology? The answer is no. Many of the same principles apply from land archeology apply to water archeology. The number one thing that is very much the same between both forms of archelogy is that it will take time. Another time factor for the team is the arrival of the site director from Libya. The teen who discovered the site twenty years ago speaks with Tony Robinson about the find. The teen had grown up and works on the site. Simon Burton was swimming off the coast when he saw the cannon. He learned that the cannon was made of bronze and continued to dive the site. The site was eventually declared protected and licensed. So, they have a site director now and he guides the work on the site. The Time Team cannot dive into the site until the site director comes back from Libya. There were another five guns and other items found at the site. Robin Bush and Mick Aston head to the town museum to see if this ship was part of the Spanish Armada. A copper pot, firepot, a merchant seal, and other cannons were found. Robin looks at the coat of arms on the cannon and Mick suggests that they look into the background of the cannon. The identity of the wreck could be tied to the coat of arms on the cannon. Robin and Mick talk about the certainty of the Armada connection. There was nothing in the local folklore about the cannon. Robin and Mick lean towards the ship being a trading vessel. So, is the ship a merchant galley or a warship? Stewart Ainsworth looks at the landscape to see if there was a nearby port. The French had raided the town burning it to the ground. However, according to folk legend, buildings may have survived. The survey results are in and those results are not good. Nothing shows up in the results. They were expecting to find pieces of timber in the sand. The results are disappointing for the Time Team and Simon Burton. Perhaps the timbers were waterlogged, and thus would not show up in the results? The results would have helped them put in the trenches. Day two begins at the breakfast table. The Time Team goes out to the wreck site and Tony dives on the wreck. However, since there were some storms last year, the site director and Simon dive on the site to make sure their markers are still there. After some sorting and repositioning their markers, Tony goes diving. While Tony dives, Mick learns how to shoot a cannon. After the markers are positioned and Tony comes up to the surface, the sand sucking starts. While that is happening, Stewart Ainsworth goes over the landscape results. At midday, Mick fires the cannon. In the afternoon, beginner diver Phil Harding takes his turn on the wreck. At the end of day two, there are no signs of the wreck. Will the Time Team find the wreck? Tune into this episode to find out. This would be a good episode to show for a “Fun Friday.” Time Team is heading on over to Gateholm Island. This island is off the coast of Pembrokeshire and a handful of objects have been found over the years. It is one of the most dangerous and inaccessible places Time Team has ever excavated. Tony Robinson will have to zipline over to the island. Did the original inhabitants have an easier way to get to the island? What will the Time Team discover about the island? Gateholm is managed by the National Trust and hopes that Time Team will unlock the secrets of the island.
Gateholm will be a serious challenge for the Time Team. Every tool and everyone has to travel by zipline to the island. This will take time and cut into digging time. The archeologists started digging before Tony arrived on the scene. Alex Langlands and Emma Woods examine the results of the geophysics and aerial photographs. Alex notes that there are rectangular buildings on the island. Was Gateholm a sacred isle? Or the site of an early monastery? Francis Pryor seems to hint at that. Across from the island, there seem to be hints of a promontory fort. Phil Harding organizes a field walking team to look at the fort site. Are there two sites linked together? As the group field walks, an arrowhead is discovered. This hints that the site was inhabited over 10,000 years ago. In the meantime, Francis uses aerial photography to plant his tranches. To Tony, the trenches seem randomly placed. Francis is looking for monk cells and a roundhouse. Mary Ann Ochata looks at what was found on the site. There was a wide range of artifacts found and hints that the island was occupied from the Mid-Roman period. A trench goes in on the fort site, after a trip across the island on the zipline. IN the meantime, on the island, there are some good discoveries. Pottery was found on the island this will help the Time Team date the site. In the meantime, Francis and John Gater debate the position of the first trench. Phil throws a bomb into their plans with evidence of earlier occupation. The first trench goes in on the fort site. Alex does some investigating at how the original islanders got on and off the island. Perhaps, there was a land bridge connecting the island to the mainland. At the end of day one, the Time Team ziplines back to the mainland. One of the archeologists brings back a large red bag of fines. Some of the pottery pieces come from the Roman period. The evidence seems to hint at Roman settlement. Are the two sites linked together? On Day Two, Time Team continues to look for evidence as to why people lived on Gateholm. The Time Team will be going hard because of the threat of rain. Trenches will be extended. Will these trenches reveal evidence of Iron Age settlement and roundhouses? Francis believes that archeology will prove it. Domestic life is slowly emerging from the trenches on the fort site. The forts inhabitants built up high banks to protect from attack. Would these walls protect the inhabitants inside? Time Team looks to answer this question. Will Gateholm Island reveal its secrets? Did people settle on the island before the Roman Empire? Was there something mystic about the site? Or was it an early monastic site? How does the fort tie into the site? Tune into this episode of Time Team to find out! This was a good episode because the Time Team faced some challenges with this dig. This one would be a good episode to show to an archaeology class. Time Team is back looking for Roman ruins. They are in the woods in Cambridgeshire. The forest may seem to be the enemy of the archeologists. However, with a lidar-generated scan, Tony was able to show a picture of something in the ground in the woods. Is it a Roman Villa? Or is it a Roman Ironworks? The trees will be a problem for geophysics. A second problem is that they are digging in a national preserve. Time Team will be risking bug bites to dig the site. What will they find in three days? Tune into this episode to find out.
On day one, they discover Roman walls. These walls are sitting just below the surface. Tony is impressed that the trenches have gone in right away. The site has puzzled local historians for decades. So what will the Time Team find on the site? If there is one person who can figure out the mystery it is Phil Harding. As Tony walks the site, he is confused from what the map has pictured to what is pictured on the ground. Phil provides clarification for the difference between walls and earthworks. Phil assures Tony that they are digging in the right place. In Trench Two, Matt is trying to discover an earthwork or something else entirely. Matt and Rashka are discovering a wall in the ground. Additionally, a piece of Roman tile is discovered. The archelogy is just below the surface. Who discovered this site? Tony goes and finds out. His name was Edmund and he mapped the area. He even had drawn a horseshoe building where the Roman villa was. Edmund never published his written reports, so Time Team will finish the job he started. John Gater has attempted to geophysics the site. However, the trees are proving to be a challenge. So John takes a metal detector over the site. They find a piece of barbed wire in the ground. In the meantime, Stewart Ainsworth shows the rest of the team a map of the landscape results. The results show that the site is bigger than what was initially thought. Phil is discovering building rubble. More of the wall is uncovered. The walls are built in a particular way. The evidence of this is found in Matt’s trench. Additionally, they are finding iron ore in the trench. Victor, Guy, Tony, Helen, and the local historian gather together to go over Edmund’s original work. There were two statues found on the site and Guy is suspicious about the statues’ origins. Finding Roman statutes in England is unusual. Helen makes the argument that it is possible that statues could be found. Eventually, Guy does come around to the possibility of Roman statues. Day Two comes and it is a rainy day. Mick and Tony talk about the need for wood during ancient times. The forest they are digging in existed since the Eleventh Century and has protected the Roman ruins. A third trench is put in and Faye who is digging it has a challenge on her hands. Could she use a machine to help dig the trench or dig it by hand? Since the dig is in a national preserve, she will have to hand dig in the trench. In the meantime, Matt’s trench is shut down and he is assigned to a new trench. Helen goes back to the original work on the site. Are they digging a Roman villa? A Roman expert does not believe that it is a Roman Villa. So is the Time Team digging an industrial site? Tune into this episode to find out. This would be a good filler episode for a history classroom and good for research for an independent study student. The Time Team is exploring a site in South Wales. They are trying to find the first railway viaduct. The mine masters started building on a grand scale during the Industrial Revolution. One of those building projects was a viaduct. People lived under the arches of the viaduct. Unfortunately, after twenty-five years the viaduct disappeared. There is no record of it being demolished, so what happened? Time Team will investigate.
The Viaduct was one of the first ones built and it was home to hundreds of workers. What happened to this viaduct? Where did it disappear to? Was it buried under the spoil heaps from coal mining? The first challenge for the Time Team is to locate the valley sides. The valley seems to be buried under the waste of coal mining. The landscape archeologists will have their work cut out for them because the landscape is completely manmade. The first challenge will be to locate the workers' cottages. Stewart Ainsworth examines the area and has a theory of the cottages’ location. If they find the cottages, they may be able to locate the viaduct. The cottages were located close to the viaduct. To start the dig, they will have to bring in the heavy artillery and the trenches will be big. The first trench goes in on the cottage site and Phil monitors the work. Concrete is found underneath. This will prove to be a challenge to further digging. Trench two goes in on the site of the lime kiln manager’s house. There is a drain in the ground. However, instead of finding one house, Time Team is finding three cottages. In the meantime, the landscape archeologists are looking for the edge of the valley. In trench two, the Time Team is finding a mix of modern archelogy and older fragments. The cottages were lived in until the 1970s. Time Team is gathering more information from the locals who remember the area and the cottages. In trench one, the Time Team is running into problems. They have dug too deep for the diggers, so they will have to expand the hole in to get deeper. Phil shows Tony and Mick clay pipes that were dug up from the site. Are the cottages still down there? They will still have to dig. John Gater is concerned about not finding the edges of the valley. However, after looking at trench one, the Time Team realizes that there was plenty of spoil left over from mining. Trench One will be filled back up again and they plan to dig a third trench. John found a chunky anomaly in the ground. The search for the viaduct begins. The third trench goes in, unfortunately, modern rubbish is being discovered. At the end of day one, the Time Team is no further in locating the lost viaduct. Time Team is throwing everything at locating this viaduct. They will have to bring in additional machinery and location additional information. Stewart found an earlier map of the site with the location of the viaduct. Phil announces that additional machinery is on its way. Time Team will be going deeper and digging bigger than they have before on the site. They will have to move 10,000 tons of dirt. Can they dig 10,000 tons of dirt in two days? Tony is skeptical about the high-risk strategy. Mick is confident that they will be able to continue with the dig. So will Time Team locate the viaduct? How deep will Time Team have to dig? Tune into this episode to find out. This would be a good episode to show to the agriscience class because there of a discussion on how the landscape changed with the coal mining spoil. |
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