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.
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This special series concludes with a Victorian Christmas celebration. The blacksmiths forge is up and running. Ruth prepares the Christmas feast.
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Preparations continue for the Victorian Farm Christmas. Ruth makes presents for the boys and boys work to restore a blacksmith's forge to its former glory.
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It has been a year since Peter Ginn, Alex Langladas, and Ruth Goodman lived as Victorian Farmers. Rupert Acton has several tasks for the Victorian farmers as the team prepares for a Victorian Christmas.
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As I wind down November and the wartime theme, I will conclude the month with a fantastic series: Wartime Farm. Our friends Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn, and Alex Langlands work a farm as it would have been worked during World War II. This time they are joined by Henry the Sheepdog. This team will work together on the farm for a full calendar year.
In the first episode, the peace is about to be shattered. The farm was going to be an additional front line in the war. Britain imported 60% of its food. It would have been easy for the Nazis to surround the island and sink any ships that tried to bring the British food. Great Britain was in a precarious position. British farming had been in decline for the past 20 years. As a result, there needed to be a revival in farming. Britain farmers, due to cheap cereal imports, focused on animals. They raised pigs, cows, beef cattle, chicken, and sheep on their farms. This needed to change because you could feed more people with cereal crops than you could with animals. The farm manager takes Ruth, Peter, and Alex on a tour of the farm. Ruth is delighted to discover that the dairy is modern; modern for the late 1930s. The team then tours the house where they will live. Ruth announces to the boys what type of stove she wants. She wants an electric cooker. Alex comments that the “lady gets an electric cooker because it is all part of the war effort.” Then each Ruth, Peter, and Alex talk about what they want to take from the experience. The first thing that Peter and Alex do is to survey the fields. Alex is a landscape archeologist and is doing the survey. The landscape on the farm contains dips in the land and these dips hold water. They will have to try to come up with a way to drain the field. The narrator highlights that the farmers were ill-equipped and did not have the machinery to follow the government’s demands. As a result of the soggy fields, Alex and Peter will have to come up with a mole subsoiler to help drain the fields. This highlights the farmer had to have make-do and mend skills. In the meantime, Ruth does some work on the house. Women were drafted to help with the labor because of the shortage of men. So there was a need to reduce the amount of housework that the Farmer’s wife did. Ruth talks with an expert in Wartime kit. Ruth’s wish for an electric cooker will sadly be unfilled. Farms were not on the main grid so they could not get electric cookers. They set up a generator and Ruth has electricity in the cottage. Ruth gets a radio and checks it out. The radio was how people got news about the war. She also checks out the electric iron and is thrilled to use it. Instead of an electric cooker, Ruth will get a paraffin stone. Ruth is thrilled to see the stove. It is just a free-standing cooker with paraffin lamps. The design helped people adopt the technology. Continue to watch on to discover more about how Ruth, Peter, and Alex set up their farm for wartime conditions. This would be an excellent series to show to your class when World War II is being studied. I am sure you can generate plenty of discussion with your students in regards to their grandparent’s memories of World War II. There are plenty of episodes to select from but if you are pressed for time, I would recommend showing the first episode. It is a great setup on how farming and the fight to grow food shaped World War II. The team works to fertilize and prepare the soil for planting. May is a quiet time in the agricultural calendar. Stuart and a charcoal burner work to make charcoal. Charcoal burning powered the industrial revolution and is smoke free, lighter, and burns hotter. Charcoal burners were a roaming profession. They are a set of skilled workers.
Dairy production begins in May. Chloe and Ruth work on milking the cows. The milk is creamy and thicker, perfect for butter. Duchess hasn't been milked much and it is proving to be a challenge for Chloe. The milk they get isn't as much as they were expecting. The pea field is getting close to done. Alex is using a breast plow to help plow the field. However he's not using his chest to plow. They are using a special pea seed, it is an experiment. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Tales from the Green Valley Episode 9 Questions:
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Tales from the Green Valley Episode 10 Ruth works in the Dairy while the boys work in the fields. The boys work on shearing sheep, they were the most valuable asset to the farm. Stuart, Alex, and Peter wash the sheep in the nearby pond. They get as wet as the sheep they are washing. Washing the sheep help makes the shearing process easier. Working in the Dairy was a woman's work. June was a good time of year for cheese making as well as a way to beat the heat. Cows eat different grasses over the year which changes the flavors of the milk. They make rennet and discuss the alternatives to it. The dairy portion of the episode would be great to show in an agricultural class, Ruth and Chloe go through the process of cheese making without technology. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Tales from the Green Valley Episode 10 Questions:
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January comes to the farm as the team works on maintenance around the farm. The well doesn't freeze for the team during winter. They finally face some bitterly cold weather which makes it hard to work outdoors. They work on the hedges while the animals are indoors and the leaves are gone. Alex works on hedge laying, this forms an animal proof fence that animals can't pass through. A hedge is often thought as a living hedge as the trees and weaving get stronger over time.
Ruth and Chloe much out the stalls. Stuart makes ink as well as working on his shoes. Ruth works on making medicine for the people on the farm. She starts off with sage oil. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Tales from the Green Valley Episode 5 Questions:
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Tales from the Green Valley Episode 6 The Team works on a new privy, taking care of the animals, laundry and some additional maintenance around the farm. They get their first snow on the farm. Alex, Peter and Stuart knock down the privy and build a new one. The first thing they do after knocking down the privy was cleaning the pit and digging it deeper. Peter has to dig out the privy after loosing out on a game of Hazard. Chloe works with the ponies to train them to be working farm animals. Stuart works on getting the pea seeds ready for planting. Ruth uses pee for use in the laundry, she makes bleach with it. She starts doing laundry around the farm. We learn that waste management was a big business in the Stuart period. Ruth, Chloe and Stuart bring the sheep down from the fields and perform maintenance on their hooves. They also clean up some of their fleeces. Alex entertains with team with his musical talents. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Tales from the Green Valley Episode 6 Questions:
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November comes around and they work on butchering animals for the farm as well as finish up the cowshed. Work continues on the cowshed, as Peter and Alex build a wall for the shed. They take advantage of the sun and warmth to finish up the wall on the cowshed. The team finishes thatching the roof. Ruth and Chloe prepare for butchering day by cleaning their supplies to make sure bacteria doesn't affect the meat. They butcher a pig. Ruth uses the blood for sausages and puddings as well as taking care of the butchering. Ruth explains that the ancestors knew that the cooking area needed to be clean, they just didn't know about germs. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Tales from the Green Valley Episode 3 Questions:
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Tales from the Green Valley Episode 4 December comes to the farm and the team prepares to celebrate Christmas. Stuart introduces the episode by discussing that although it's Christmas, chores on the farm didn't end. The boys work on making a hovel. They make it so they can take it down and store it over the summer. Ruth and Chloe work on making woolies. They talk about how the period clothes and how they work or don't work against the weather. Stuart threshes the peas for seed and to plant in the future. He gives the stalks and pods to the animals for a treat. Ronald Hutton stops by and helps the team celebrate Christmas. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Tales from the Green Valley Episode 4 Questions:
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A team of historians and archeologists work a farm as it would have been done in the Stuart Period. They work a full calendar year on the farm. They will turn theory into practice. Stuart Peachy helped rebuild the site.
The Historians are Stuart Peachy and Ruth Goodman. The Archeologists are Peter Ginn, Alex Langlands, and Chloe Spencer. Stuart runs the farm, and Ruth runs the household. Peter, Alex, and Chloe take care of the animals, building maintenance, and the fields. Chloe has the most experience with taking care of the animals. They kick off the year by plowing the fields and making bread. They plant wheat into the field by broadcasting. Each episode in the series is 30 minutes long. It could be a last-minute fill-in for a substitute in an agricultural class or a history class. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Tales from the Green Valley Episode 1 Questions:
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Tales from the Green Valley - Episode 2 The team continues to work on the cowshed. They build a roof for the cowshed. They fight the rain to make sure the roof gets on and adapt to their clothing while they work on it. They turn out the pigs in the orchards after the nuts and fruits have been harvested to help fatten them up. Ruth makes sure that the workforce is well fed as they are constantly working outdoors. Each episode in the series is 30 minutes long. It could be a last-minute fill-in for a substitute in an agricultural class or a history class. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Tales from the Green Valley Episode 2 Questions:
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Ruth, Peter, and Alex finish their year on the Victorian Farm. With the failed hay harvest, the team looks to recover with the wheat harvest. They finish off their year celebrating the harvest with a feast.
Peter and Alex get to grips with Victorian technology in preparation of the wheat harvest. The harvester that was used had a device that helped tie wheat bundles and was invented by a Wisconsin farm hand. Ruth learns the art of plaiting straw stalks and discovers how addicting it can be. It was a simple skill that could make a farmer money. Ruth also explores the impact of the Empire on the Victorian Kitchen. She uses curry mix to prepare the boys a meal. Peter arranges to have the cart they plan to use to haul the wheat in repaired since it was not used in decades. They celebrate the end of the time on the Victorian Farm with a party. You can use this episode of the series in the classroom when there is a sub in the room. Unless you want to use it as a supplement for a lecture in a history classroom. You can highlight, copy, and paste the questions into a Word, GoogleDoc or Google Classroom document for use in school or home school. Format it the way you want to. All questions after formatting should fit onto one page. You can find the link to the YouTube video here. Victorian Farm Episode 6 Questions:
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