Good morning, this time on The Thirty-One Days of the Time Team learn about Romans recycling.  The run time for this episode is 46:59.

Over the years metal detectorists have discovered a variety of metal artifacts from the Roman, Iron Age, and Saxon periods in a field that is between two villages.  The finds are in Lincolnshire and the locals believe there was a posh building in the area.  Lincoln was a great center for Roman Britain, however, there are no records of Wickenby being a center of Roman occupation.  So why are there so many finds?  The Time Team has three days to find out.

The initial geophysics results that there is a great deal of archelogy even though there are no records of a Roman settlement nearby.  What was really happening in these fields during Roman times?  Francis Pryor believes they are sitting on a major series of Roman settlements.  John Gater wants to do more geophysics on the site.  Tony Robinson has his suspicions.  Phil Harding talks about the geophysics showing that there was settlement going on and that by digging they are furthering the story.

Trench One goes in, over an area where a large concentration of finds was discovered.  It does not take long before the first finds emerge.  Geophysics work on the site as well.  So why does Wickenby hosts so many Roman finds, especially medal finds?  It was not on the road to Lincoln and its location would have been more appropriate for a farmstead.  However, the finds give a hint that the settlement was wealthy and active.  Tony goes around town and talks about the different columns that were found in the area.  The locals believe that these belonged to a posh house.

Phil shows off the initial finds that were found in the first trench.  He believes that this hints that there was a settlement at Wickenby.  However, there was molten lead found on the site which would hint that there was something being melted on the site.  This is the opposite of a farm settlement.  John Gater seems to have discovered a large anomaly also known as a blob that hints at the industrial nature of the site.  Guy de la Bedoyere then talks about the Roman industry of metalworking and recycling.

Trench two goes in over the blob.  Guy and Helen look over the brooch finds.  Helen disagrees that it was a metal scrap metal center.  There were plenty of brooches discovered over the site.  Helen points out to the brooches were finished and were not manufactured on the site.  It is only Day One and there is already a disagreement on the team.  As trench two goes in, Phil makes a find in the trench.  There is evidence of a ditch and charcoal.  The evidence of burning seems to hint that Guy is right about this site being for metal recycling.  In fact, in a previous dig, there was a metal bowl found on the site.

In the village, the evidence gathering continues.  Are the columns that were found in the village part of a Roman building on site?  The answer may surprise you.

Back at the first trench, more Roman evidence emerges as well as evidence of an earlier settlement.  Francis believes that this evidence points to an Iron Age Settlement.  Trench one is shut down and a third trench is put in based on John Gater’s geophysics results.  He found evidence of a circular building, perhaps it was an Iron Age roundhouse.  What John is showing, goes beyond a typical Roman Britain farmstead.

On Day Two the Time Team will investigate a spring and a potential roundhouse.  Tony catches up with Guy and Francis to talk about the site and its potential.  What will the Time Team learn about this site?  Is this site the home of something industrial?  Why were there so many brooches found at the site?  What about the evidence of the Iron Age Settlement?  Tune into the rest of this episode to find out more!

The artifacts that were found at the site were very intriguing, especially since there were so many of them.  It was also interesting to hear the Time Team talk about what the site was.  This would be a good episode for a history class and for independent study students.

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.
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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.