Good morning, we are working through October and the Thirty-One Days of the Time Team. In this episode, the Time Team is teeing off on the golf course, but they are not on the search for a stray golf ball. What will the Time Team find in Finds on the Fairway? The run time for this episode is 47:01.
The Time Team battles a hurricane to investigate a small stone chapel that is preserved under a golf course on the Isle of Mann. One thousand years ago, the island was dotted with these small stone chapels, many of which have disappeared. Mick shows his enthusiasm for early Christian Buildings and is enjoying the dig. However, the Time Team discovers more than a building, they discover preserved plaited hair, very modern golf balls, and a piece of Ogham script. The Time Team is joined by Andy Johnson, Nick Johnson, and Dawn Hadley. The Isle of Man has witnessed a great deal of human history over the years. It was influenced by a variety of cultures. It was here that Celtic Christians and Pagan Vikings came together to battle for the soul of the people. One of the last influences of those cultures was the Keeill, a small chapel. Over the years these keeills have been badly dug by the antiquarians or have disappeared completely. The Time Team hopes to find a well-preserved keeill on a golf course. It is a unique opportunity for the Time Team. The keeill is the last untouched keeill on the Isle of Man. This keeill has avoided the fate of the other keeills on the isles and the Time Team looks to learn something new about the keeill. The site has been marked by a large stone to help preserve the keeill underneath it. Additionally, the Time Team will have to battle hurricane-force winds to dig the keeill. As the trench goes in, there was a stone discovered in its place. However, Tony is left in a panic when the trench goes in. However John and Mick talk about geophysics that was done on the site fourteen years ago. They talk about putting in trench two over a potential enclosure ditch. Additional to the keeill, burials were discovered on the site. If the Time Team discovers these burials they can use the materials to date the site. Mick and Tony discuss keeills and they look over a drawing Victor Ambrus did of what the keeill could look like. Mick is thrilled about the site and looks forward to what the Time Team finds. A hurricane will not stop Mick from keeping an eye on the site and the finds that come out of this dig. One of those finds includes a very modern golf ball. Quartz is also coming up from the site. Perhaps this quartz was used to decorate the altars, perhaps, the Time Team has discovered the eastern end of the keeill. Now the time Team has to find the western edge of the keeill. This keeill would have witnessed a great deal of a changing culture. It would have witnessed paganism, the rise of Christianity on the Isle of Man, and then the Viking invasions. Back in the trench, the first burial was discovered. The skeleton is in good condition and perhaps this burial will help the Time Team date the site. This skeleton is found in a stone-lined grave. However, this burial is not enough for Mick. Perhaps there are prehistoric buildings on the site. Tony quips, “if the archeologists have their way, they would dig up the whole fairway. Trench three goes in, and immediately features are discovered on the trench: another grave is discovered in the trench. Still, this does not satisfy certain members of the Time Team. Will these members of the Time Team be satisfied with their discoveries or will they be hungry for more? What will the Time Team learn about the keeill? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out more! I thoroughly enjoyed Tony’s narration during this episode, and yes I understand I say that every time. However Tony was particularly snarky during this episode. This would be a good episode for a history fun day because the archeology was well done and there were plenty of new discoveries.
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Good morning, we are working through Thirty-One Days of the Time Team. This time, the Time Team is exploring some interesting archelogy on the farm and it’s not from Old McDonald. The episode is called Animal Far and the run time for this episode is 48:35.
Carved stonework, posh bits and bobs, coins, and a horse bit are among the finds that brought the Time Team to this farm. A photograph of the field shows some pretty interesting lines in the landscape. Amateur archeologists took to the site and found something. They are on a search for a grand Norman Hunting Lodge. However, it does not take long before their findings point in a different direction. Why were there so many grand finds on this farm? Over 800 years ago, England was torn apart by civil war. King John was going after the nobles to try to restore order back in England. It was at this time, a noble family the Morwicks owned the land the Time Team is investigating. A grand building was erected on the site and then suddenly abandoned. So did King John destroy this estate during this civil war? Time Team has three days to find out. Amateur archeologists uncover a building on the site, however, these archeologists reached out to the Time Team for further assistance in learning about the site. Trench one goes in over the original excavation to document and measure the finds. If this was a grand manor lodge it would have been t-shaped. However, it could potentially be a hunting lodge or it could be no more than a cowshed. Geophysics takes to the field and will use magnetometry to examine the site. Earlier finds that were discovered have been identified, location determined, and dated. Helen Geake catches up with Paul Blinkhorn, a pottery expert about the discovered pottery finds. There was a range of pottery shards found that show how long the house was lived in. In fact, the house was occupied for a short time, shorter than what the Time Team anticipated. Why was the home abandoned? Tony catches up with a historian, who talks about the Medieval kings of England. England had strong kings, however, there were two weak kings. Henry I, Henry II, and Richard the Lionheart were considered strong and could impose their will on the barons. Weak kings meant that barons could run wild. The Barons pushed back against the rules of the king. The family that owned the farm had been granted land by William the Conqueror. However, under King John, they grew fed up with the King and wanted to press their ownership of the land. The work continues on trench one and the walls are providing a puzzle to the archeologists. Are the walls a sign of a two-story building? The dig is starting to look promising. In the meantime, the geophysics results come back and they are not finding a second building on the site. They head out again to do more research. However, Stewart Ainsworth is throwing a wretch in all of Time Team’s theories. The Time Team back at Trench one is rapidly coming to the conclusion that they are not digging into a potential two-story building. Is this a low-status building? Why are there so many high-status finds? The Time Team will have to turn back to the records to find the answers. What was this area called? Were there grand houses nearby? Was this area part of a royal forest? Stewart and Dawn do some research into the records of the land. However, this is not a straightforward task for this pair. Tony looks over the posh finds that were discovered on the site. There was a carved stone discovered at the site that could have come from a variety of buildings on the site. The stones are proving that something was there, but the archelogy is proving otherwise. Day One and everything is confusing to Tony. Will the Time Team be able to detangle the archeology? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out. There were a variety of theories to test in regard to this site, so this would be a good episode to show in a science class because of the application of the scientific method. I would show this one to a history class just for a history fun day. Good morning! We are working through Thirty-One Days of the Time Team. This episode is from series twelve and is called Going Upmarket with the Romans. The run time for this episode is 48:36.
In a field in Gloucestershire, there has been a discovery of Roman broaches, monastic tiles, and coins. These finds hint at a villa nearby; however, a villa has not been found. Why are there so many finds discovered at this site? Boxes and boxes of Iron and Roman-age items were found. The finds were found in a field near Standish. So what will the Time Team learn about these finds in three days? The finds in this Standish field will provide an insight into Roman and Iron Age life. Perhaps this field was home to a farmstead. Geophysics had gone over the site before, but for the Time Team resurveyed the area and the results are pretty good. However, the finds were discovered beyond the surveyed area, so John Gater will have to survey the area of the finds. The Time Team will reopen one of the trenches the local archeologists put in. This trench will be the first one to go in over the original trench. Will this trench reveal an Iron Age settlement? As Trench One goes in, Phil discovers the leftovers from the original excavation. Trench two goes in over a potential pit site. In the meantime, geophysics works on the rest of the field over a potential building site. However, the heavens open up and it starts to rain. The rain obscures the potential Iron Age remains and is flummoxing Phil. Helen Geake examines the artifacts that were discovered previously. The finds are comparable to what was discovered in another field nearby. They seem to hint at an Iron Age farm that evolved into a Roman farmstead. Things are looking up for Phil in his trench. The rain has stopped and Phil makes his first discovery: a pot. The pot would have been used for storage and was locally made. The people who used this pot would have witnessed the Roman invasion and would have faced life under their Roman overlords. Over in trench two, the Time Team discovers a body, a most unexpected find. Stewart Ainsworth and Tony take to the sky in a helicopter to look over the landscape. Stewart talks about how the Iron Age farms would have been taken over by the Romans. He also points out a potential hill fort site. The farm would not have been far from the nearest Roman road. In the meantime, an expert looks over the body that was found in trench two. He seems to believe that this body was buried in the late Iron Age. This body shows that Iron Age people died here. Phil is working on the trench to figure out where the Iron Age people lived. The Iron Age people would have lived in the roundhouse. He shows Tony the curving of the house in the ground. Later in the afternoon, Phil’s mood changes when the sun gets in the way of his excavation. While Phil works, geophysics works on finding the Roman villa. However, the results are disappointing. The results show a lot of roundhouses and enclosures in the area. There is still no sign of Roman buildings to go with the finds. Trench four goes in over the potential roundhouse. The body continues to flummox the Time Team. No grave goods were found with the body buried during the early Roman period. She would have been considered a low-status worker since she was not found with grave goods. Pot fragments were discovered in this trench as well. The fragments demonstrate the gradual Romanization of the population. The excavation is looking up for the Time Team. Why were there so many finds discovered in this field? Will the Time Team discover a villa in this field? Or will Mick put a stop to the villa chasing? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out. The narration was good and the archeology was even better. It was funny watching Phil get mad at the sun. This was an enjoyable episode to watch and would be a good episode to add to your list of potential Time Team episodes to show to your history class. Good morning, we are working through the Thirty-One Days of the Time Team, and this time we are going to look at an episode from Series 14. The Time Team is leaving no stone unturned in this episode and the episode is called No Stone Unturned.. The run time for this episode is 47:14.
This time the Time Team arrives at a field in Cheshire where metal detectorists have made some fascinating finds. The finds may hint that the field may have been home to an active Roman settlement. However as the Time Team digs, they are not having any luck in making discoveries. What were these metal detectorists discovering in the field? What will the Time Team find on this dig? Or will this be the first dig where the Time Team finds nothing? What will happen in three days is anyone’s guess. In 1998, there were a series of chance finds and these finds encouraged local enthusiasts that the Romans settled on these lands. There was loads of medal work and other types of archeology found on the site. Local archeologists believe they had found a small Roman fort, however, the artifacts do not have a military origin. What is going on at this site? For this dig, the Time Team is joined by Mike Neville, University of Manchester; David Shotter, Roman Historian; Robert Philpott; Liverpool Museum; and Andrew Lacey, Archemetallurgist. Tony looks over the finds that were discovered at the site including coins, broaches, and metal objects. Tony is skeptical of the site and the finds. Local archeologists dug a trench in the area and found a ditch that was a potential trap. Francis Pyror believes that instead of being a military site, the site could be a farm. The Time Team is off, Stuart is studying the landscape and a troop of field walkers goes out in the fields. The land is surveyed. Geophysics works on the site as well. Trench one goes next to the trench that held the defensive ditch. Is there an actual ditch on the site? Was there an actual Roman fort on the site? The field walkers are having a field day and discovering many little finds. Trench one is not having much luck and Phil is finding enough sand for a sand castle. Francis believes that he sees the ditch. As the finds are cleaned, there are many modern finds that are being found. However, there was a fragment of a storage pot was found. John Gater provides worse news because of all the sand of the field, geophysics cannot make heads or tales of the grounds. Trench two goes across from Phil’s to locate another fort’s wall. Trench Three goes in another potential location of the fort wall, this will help the Time Team determine the size of the fort. You can feel Tony’s despair through the screen. As the experts believe the Time Team is working on a small Roman fort, Stewart shoots down that theory. He points out that the ditch that Phil is working on is a farm hedge line. Bridget has been working on trench two and has made no finds in that ditch. The work continues on Trench One, Trench Two, and Trench Three. Eventually, one long trench is formed and they come together. It was one of the longest trenches the Time Team dug, and it was the trench where nothing was found. Why is the field producing so many finds of 8,000 years of human history? However, the Time Team is not despairing. Trench four goes in over a site that hinted at burning and metalwork. So maybe the Time Team is not working on a fort site. Trench five goes in over a place down the slope. Perhaps, in this trench, the Time Team will be able to explain the plethora of Roman finds. The Time Team will have a piece of jewelry made using Roman methods. What will the Time Team find in three days? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out! Tony’s narration was fascinating during the whole episode and it was building up to the fact that nothing was found on this site. This would be a good episode to show on April Fool’s Day in a history class. Good morning, we are continuing with the Thirty-One Days of the Time Team and we are finished with Series 13! Based on my list, I have series one, series two, and series three done. Four seasons down, sixteen to go, and hopefully I can dig up some more Time Team Specials! This episode is called the Monks Manor and the run time for this episode is 47:56.
The Time Team travels to Yorkshire to meet Chris and Barbara Bradley. They own a farm and there may be remains of a monastic settlement. The buildings on the site hint that something is going on in the site. The stones hint that there was a big and important building on the site. Chris Bradley wants to learn more about the site before he and his wife head up off into the sunset. The Time Team has three days to find out what was going on at the site. In the 1960s there was some archelogy work done that hints at a structure on the site. Photographs of the dig survive and Mick goes over them with Tony, John Gater, and Mark Newman. Mark Newman is a National Trust expert. This original dig discovered high-quality tiles. Chris, the farm owner, talks about the dig and points out where the original trenches were put in. There are many large stones found on the site, so the Time Team documents them before removing them before they put in new trenches. Jonathan Clarke, a buildings archaeologist looks over the stones with Phil. From the evidence around, it is clear that there was a substantial building in the area. The first task for the Time Team is to relocate one of the trenches from the 1960s Digs. Trench One goes in and stonework is immediately discovered. This wall could have been the wall found in the 1960s. In the field next door, Chris shows Mick a piece of wall that was found by the cows. Geophysics works in this field. Is this a wall? Tony looks over the farm buildings on the site. There are blocks that have Medieval graffiti on the site. Mick theorizes that there was a structure that was taken apart and the building materials were reused on the site. He believes that the farm was a site of a monastic grange. A monastic grange was a farm that belonged to a monastery. This farm would have produced the goods that would have kept the monastery going. Evidence shows that the nearby Fountains Abbey had a grange nearby. It is here that the Time Team turns to the documentary evidence to learn more about Fountains Abbey and the grange. The evidence is hinting that the farm was a monastery grange. Fountains Abbey was six miles away from this grange. However, the news that this site was a monastery grange is both good and bad news. The good news for narrowing down the time frame of the site, the bad news is that there is not much known about the granges. There were no written plans for granges, so even if the Time Team finds a building they will not know what it is. The Time Team concludes the day with a special pint. Tony catches up with Mick in regard to what is going on at the site. He is concerned that there is a lot of work that needs to be done on the site to learn more about it. Mick shows Tony the finds that are coming out of the trenches. The finds and other evidence is pointing to a monastic grange. Mick points out that they may have to dig up the farmer’s garden, which thrills Tony to no end. What else will the Time Team find on this dig? What will geophysics show? What will the landscape tell us about the grange? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out more! Well, this was a very interesting episode of Time Team because it demonstrates that even the Time Team continues to learn new things over the years. You never stop learning! Tony’s narration was excellent and humorous as well. It was funny as to how Tony just volunteered Matt to live the life of a lay brother. This would be a good episode to pair with the Tudor Monastery Farm series and is excellent for a history class and independent study students. Good morning, we are soon winding down Series 13 with a look at Scotch Broch in Scotland. This Time Team episode runs for 46:57. After this episode there will be one more episode in Series 13 to do and then Series 13 will be done!
The Time Team heads over to Applecross Peninsula in Scotland to excavate a broch. A broch is a monumental dry stone tower and it was one of the largest Iron Age structures in Britain. Soil and massive overhead power lines won’t stop the Time Team from excavating this site. The Time Team is joined by Iron Age specialists Ian Armit, Andy Heald, Cathy Dagg, and Noel Fojut. What can this broch tell us about life in Iron Age Scotland? Tune into this episode to find out! Nick Goldthrope invited the Time Team to this site. His family has owned the land for years and he had played amongst the structures. Now, as an adult, he would like to learn more about the structures on the site. Applecross is a peninsula that is cut off from the rest of Scotland by the mountains. The road to Applecross is closed when the weather is bad. Mick, Tony, Nick, and Victor Armbus talk about the site. Victor has drawn up what the broch would look like. Trench One goes in and that is immediately followed by Trench Two. Mick made his decision based on the topography of the site, even before the geophysics results have come back. Immediately there is a problem: the site is one of the stoniest places the Time Team has worked. Additionally, due to the power lines overhead, mechanical diggers are not allowed either. Tony learns about what a broch was. A broch would have been a stone roundhouse and it would have been built with two circular walls. Brochs are only found in Scotland, and the circular walls, in theory, will help the brochs be quickly discovered. However, all the stones around the trench are going to challenge the Time Team. Geophysics comes back and tries to cancel out the noise of the rocks. John points out two curving walls, but even that is not enough to convince the Scottish Broch Experts. The Time Team needs to keep digging. Does this structure have one wall or two? Phil is discovering a possible wall. In Matt’s trench, there may be a more significant discovery made. There may be an outer wall, corridor, and interior wall in that trench. However, the experts are still unconvinced. Day One begins to get very wet. Mick and Nick look around the land. Tony is feeling frustrated that no one was willing to commit to the discovery of a Broch on the site. Stewart Ainsworth goes over the landscape with Tony and a broch expert. He has a map that has the location of all the brochs or likely brochs. What is going on in Scotland? Why did the Iron Age people build so many brochs? Stewart is going to have to out and examine the landscape for more information. The Time Team continues to excavate the site. Trench three, a particularly long trench, goes in towards the end of the day and of course, they hit more stone. However, this stone looks like it belongs to a dry-stone building. Within minutes of this third trench going in, the Time Team discovers the two walls of a broch. The experts were finally impressed that the Time Team has found something. Back in Matt’s trench, the Broch experts may have figured out what was going on. Matt’s trench is one of the sides of the broch, and the stone area that Phil found is not part of the broch. So will the experts agree that the Time Team found a broch? What do these brochs tell us about life in the Iron Age? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out. Tony’s narration for this episode was particularly funny. He was enthusiastic about the broch and then being shot down by the experts. It was also interesting to see the hard work it took to excavate the site. In the end, this would be a good episode to show for a history fun day. Good morning, we are working through Thirty-One Days of the Time Team. My focus has been series thirteen and after today we will have two more episodes to finish up and then series thirteen will be done. This episode is called the Court of the Kentish Kings and the run time for this episode is 48:11.
The Time Team makes their way to Kent to search for a lost Anglo-Saxon Palace belonging to a Kentish King. They have discovered one potential site and two potential sites for the Anglo-Saxon Palace. For years, the village in Eastry, Kent has been revealing a variety of Anglo-Saxon fines. The villagers are curious to see what was going on during Anglo-Saxon Times in this village. One intriguing find: a broach, seems to hint that there was something special about this site. What will the Time Team uncover in three days, tune in to find out! Eastry is in Kent and the villagers have discovered an Anglo-Saxon burial in one backyard, another burial with a large number of finds, and a site with some very interesting finds. Each of these finds seems to hint that someone with money lived in the area. According to documents, Eastry was an administrative center during the Anglo-Saxon times. One of the locals believes that there was a palace that was at the center of the administrative center. Even the old maps hint and aerial photos show that something is going on at the site. Geophysics go to work to see what was going on at this site. Trench one goes in over a potential enclosure. It will be one of the longest trenches that the Time Team has ever done. At the top of the hill trench two goes in. The Time Team also brings in a large number of metal detectorists. They make the first finds on the site a piece of a brooch with a garnet. Why would there be high-status finds on this site? Who would have these finds? What was his position in the area? Was he a king or a rich man? According to 8th Century documents, there was a large residence for a ruler. This ruler was known as the King of Kent. His home would have been his official residence and the center of the community. If this was the home to the King of Kent, this would fit the description of a high-status individual. Trench two yields some pottery finds from the Anglo-Saxon period. One expert suggests that there could have been an Anglo-Saxon settlement with a few huts on the site. Mick and Tony head onto a potential second site for the living quarters of the high-status individual. The home is a Grade I listed mansion in Eastry. The owner believes that this home is the key to understanding the Anglo-Saxon presence in Eastry. The homeowner shows off timbers from the 1250s and talks about the documentary history of the house. The original home was torn down before the 1250s and a new one was built. The documents talk about the land being occupied and home to a grand hall. Was this the real site of the home of the Kentish kings? The hall of the Kentish kings would have been visible for miles. It was a large building. However, nothing has been found of this size from the Anglo-Saxon age in Kent. So where is this palace? Was it on the hill or was it at the house? The Time Team splits up to continue to look. One unusual find seems to throw even the Anglo-Saxon experts off. Does this object hint at a burial site on the hill? Helen is intrigued and opens up a third trench on the site where metal objects were found. The metal detectorists0998 are discovering more finds. So where was this court of the Kentish King? Was it on the hill or was it at a house in town? What else will the Time Team discover in three days? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out more! This was a cool episode with the largest trench the Time Team has put in. The finds were intriguing as well. This would be a good episode for a history fun day. Good morning, we are continuing with the Thirty-One Days of Time Team. I am down to the final four episodes of Series 13. Today’s episode is the second episode of the series: Villas Out of Molehills and the run time for this episode is 48:14.
Moles are bringing up pieces of mosaic floor in a Cotswold Field. The Time Team travels to the Cotswold, to explore whether or not these tiles are linked to a nearby villa that was discovered almost 200 years ago. Nobody was able to date the villa at the time of the original dig. A nearby spring may give a clue to the purpose of the building. Could this villa be a bathhouse? Or could it be a sacred site? The Time Team is on the case to find out. The site was located in Withington, nearby a large Roman city called Cirencester. This area was known as the bread basket of Britain during the Roman period. The Time Team was invited by Roger Box, a local archelogy. He talks about how the moles have been bringing up mosaic pieces over the years. Mick thinks there could be a villa, but is more interested in the spring nearby. The pieces that were brought up could hint that it was a villa, however, David Neal, a Roman villa specialist, believes that it could be a bathhouse. Geophysics works on the site and there is a massive target located. Trench one goes in over the river site. No sooner than the first layer comes up, Phil discovers more mosaic pieces. They are all over trench one. In 1810, the site was originally discovered. There were some mosaics that were found and preserved during that time. The Time Team will have to find the location of the villa because the location was lost. Mick and Phil go over the notes that were made from the original dig. Stuart walks the landscape to see if he can find the location of the villa. The electric lines are proving to be a challenge to geophysics. Stuart is using the electric lines to his advantage and he is armed with a watercolor made during the first dig. More and more tiles are being found, so many tiles are being found that the digger is put away and every one hand digs the trench. Some volunteers are sent to a stream to search for roof tiles. Five hours later, Phil discovers a mosaic floor. Tony takes part in the dig and discovers more of the mosaic. Finding a mosaic on day one is a very rare event for the Time Team indeed. More geophysics results come in and it shows different areas of occupation over the site. Trench two goes in in the upper field. The Time Team expects to find backfill from the original dig in 1810. They are discovering roof tiles. In Trench One, more and more of the mosaic is found. Additionally, there is a chunk of wall found. In Trench Two, a Roman wall is found, but is it the Roman villa? In Trench One, another mosaic is found. Phil goes over what he thinks is going on with Tony. It seems there was a building with a mosaic in the corridor. What will day two bring for the Time Team? The targets for day two include spring and looking for the original villa. Why would the Romans build a villa near a spring? Mick is exploring spring the next morning. He found stone channels and a stone basin. He concludes that spring started somewhere else and that the Romans diverted the water to whatever they had built. Could there be a third building on the site? Is the Time Team working on a bathhouse site? Or a temple site? Or a villa site? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out more. Wow, wow, wow. This was a fascinating episode because of all the finds that were discovered. Even though the Time Team did have a limit as to how much they could dig, all the trenches produced the finds. It was especially cool to see that there was a nearly intact mosaic discovered! I would definitely put this particular Time Team episode on the list of episodes to show to a classroom. Good morning, we are continuing with Thirty-One Days of the Time Team and we are heading to series thirteen and looking at a Roman mansion. The episode is called The Taxman’s Tavern and the run time for this episode is 47:30.
This time the Time Team is heading on over to Alfodean, Sussex to uncover a mansion that was a Roman coaching inn. It was located on Stane Street and this area was the first part of Britain to be Romanized. The site is over one kilometer long and has 300 years of Roman occupation. There This mansion was the center of a large community and is a rare opportunity to shed light on Roman life in Britain. Nobody really knows how this mansion fits into Roman life. The Time Team will have their work cut out for them as they look at a large area. Will they learn anything in Three Days? When one first walks on the site, archelogy and artifacts are found hinting that there was something going on. The field is littered with roof tile and high-status pottery found on site. Over the last years, the site has been field walked and written about. The site was dug only one time and this excavation hinted at a variety of buildings on the site. Was this a mansion or a fort? A fort would have been a place for soldiers. A mansion would be a resting place for travelers, much like a hotel. Geophysics works on the site, and the results show there is something going on. In fact, the Time Team has been given too many targets to explore. Trench one goes in to relocate the dig that took place in the 1920s. As trench one goes in, Phil picks up a piece of tile. While trench one goes in, Neil and John look at the ditches that were around the property. The ditches would hint at something that needed to be protected. Trench two goes in over the ditch. Why would someone make a ditch for a hotel? Phil works in the first trench and thinks he discovered the mansion. There seems to be a wall and demolition work in Phil’s trench. Was this a wall? Only time and more digging will solve the mystery. Mike Lee was an archeologist who explored the site before and he is taking part in the Time Team dig. Tony catches up with Mike to learn why Mike kept coming back to the site. Mike would like to see if Time Team could come up with a plan for the site. More and more geophysics work is done on the site. Trench two continues to be dug and the enclosure ditches have been located. The problem is that geophysics suggests that the ditches were massive. The Romans really focused on this area. Helen Geake and Stuart Ainsworth head up in a helicopter to survey the site from the air. It is Helen’s first time in a helicopter. Stuart discusses why the Romans would pick this site for a mansion. More and more archeology is being found in Trench Once including brick and plaster. Phil finds painted wall plaster on the site. The painted wall plaster hints that the mansion had posh rooms. Perhaps the people that used these mansions were on official government business. These government officials would have expected the best accommodation. Helen wonders why the ditches were so big. She suggests that the tax man would have been unpopular with the natives and the ditches would have protected them. Trench two in the meantime has undergone a massive expansion. Tony sees that there were two massive ditches in the trench. It seems that the Romans put in a huge effort to dig these ditches. What else will the Time Team find? Have they bitten off more than they can chew with this dig? Could this dig spill into a second episode? Tune into the rest of this Time Team to find out! This was an excellent episode of the Time Team. There was so much archeology on the site, it forced them to make choices. I would hope that they would go back in the future to explore this site once again. This would be a good episode to show to a history class because of the archeology that was found on the site. Good morning, we are working on the Thirty-One Days of Time Team for October. I am pulling an episode from Series 12. This time we are going to Yorkshire, England, and learning about the Normans. The run time for this episode is 47:58. The episode is called The Norman Neighbors.
Frances Davies, a Time Team fan, has been collecting finds from fields outside her house in Skipsea. She has collected a variety of artifacts from the Neolithic, Roman, and Saxon items over the years. The items reveal that people were living in the area over 1,000 years ago. However, the geophysics results hint at a large village. Could this village be the seat of power for a Norman lord? The Time Team has three days to find out, but will three days be enough for the Time Team to investigate the site? Tony kicks off the episode by catching up with Frances Davies and walks along her field. She displays the artifacts she made over the years. Tony brings up the geophysics results she paid for showing a large amount of activity going on. One year the fields were plowed deeper and even more, artifacts were discovered. Geophysics is working on the site and two trenches are going in. More and more finds are being found. Carenza Lewis catches up with Frances to put all the finds out on a table according to a timeline. This timeline will show the site's rise and decline in activity. Phil is gaga over the flint finds that were found at the site. Some of the earliest finds are from about 4000 BC and were among the earliest farmers. Phil examines the artifacts and explains what they all are to Frances. He points out a broken axe head among the finds. Phil thought Frances could have found more flint finds at the site. The high winds do not deter the Time Team from finding the potential of the site. There seemed to be a rivalry that developed between the geophysics team, the landscape team, and the trenches to what could be found on site. The site is on the North Sea. Tony tries to stay out of the wind and catches up with Stuart in the car. He talks about the landscape of the area. He will be looking for clues as to what was going on in the field. Geophysics continues to expand its survey. Early results show plenty of noise. John Gater also sees a boundary line in the field, so trench three is going over the ditch. This ditch may end indicate a settlement. There was a round feature that Tony would like to examine. Stuart seems to believe this round feature will be a quarry. There was a clear occupation in the Neolithic Period and then there was a decline in activity until the Norman Conquest. Then occupation on the site picked up again. The Norman pottery found at the site has the Norman Pottery expert happy. One element of this episode was recreating a medieval pot. The Norman pottery expert works on making a pot. There was one item that came from the field that showed a thumbprint of the pot’s creator. John keeps coming up with the geophysics results. The finds also keep coming. There is a piece of metal found in one of the trenches that looked like it collapsed on itself. This piece of metal is confusing Phil, was this a feature of the ditch, or did it come from a later period? Landscape and environmental archaeologists continue to learn more about the landscape. Could there have been an ancient lake on the site? The evidence seems to point in that direction. What will the Time Team continue to learn about this site? Will Tony blow away? What caused the people to leave this site? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out more! This was one cool episode to watch because of all the finds that were initially discovered. Frances was thrilled to learn more about what she initially on the site. I also like the recreation of the pot that the handle would have been part of. It was also surprising how fast the archeology revealed itself. Over all, it would be a good episode for a history fun day. |
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